Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 2 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 3 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 4 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 5 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 6 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 7 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 8 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 9 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 10 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 11 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 12 | The purpose served by the two massive exhaust cowlings is less clear , but it 's unlikely Bugatti would test them if they were for styling reasons only . |
| 13 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 14 | Anthropologists noted " post-partum taboos " even if they were for a month . |
| 15 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 16 | as if it were for best . |
| 17 | He sent the paintings but none were for sale . |
| 18 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 19 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 20 | I wondered whether you were erm I wonder whether you were for the bullet or not ? |
| 21 | SINCE Indian independence in 1947 , the main question before Indian voters has been whether they were for or against the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 22 | The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme . |
| 23 | He was looking at her as though she were for sale . |
| 24 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 25 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 26 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 27 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 28 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 29 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 30 | Similarly , it has been shown that tsunami , or " tidal waves " as they were for long mis-named , have an immense effect on shore-lines , both in erosion and in the shifting of great quantities of sediment . |