Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 2 | The only 10 year awards were for those who had worked for LASMO elsewhere — Rupert Kidd , LASMO Pakistan 's general manager , and Chris Riley , finance and administration manager . |
| 3 | Explanations were for those who mattered to her . |
| 4 | As a result , many men who in law ranked as tenants were for most practical purposes the de facio owners . |
| 5 | The highest rates were for those charged with theft of or from a vehicle ( 23 per cent . |
| 6 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 7 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 8 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |