Example sentences of "[was/were] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated , indeed quite sophisticated by many adults ' standards as we have seen . |
| 2 | And developments which did not contribute to , nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective . |
| 3 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 4 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects . |
| 7 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 10 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 11 | Diplomats and diplomatic representation , it could be argued , were for these states a doubtfully necessary luxury and perhaps even a dangerous one . |
| 12 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 13 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 14 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 15 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 16 | The event , as ever , was for all shapes and sizes , ages and abilities . |
| 17 | It was not confined to Methodists , but was for all children who wished to attend . |
| 18 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 19 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 20 | Basil was a true advocate of the view that Art was for all people . |
| 21 | However , teaching was for all levels of junior doctors together . |
| 22 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 23 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 24 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 25 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 26 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 27 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 28 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |
| 29 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 30 | It was for that reason that I never showed him my poem ‘ To Thomas Hardy in 1940 ’ . |