Example sentences of "were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were for law and were greeted by applause in an assembly of the staff and students . |
| 2 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 3 | But so did they : friends were for fun and solace . |
| 4 | Friends were for life . |
| 5 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 6 | On one of his afternoon strolls ( mornings were for work , once he had completed his domestic chores laid down by Stella ) , he chanced on Bank Street , in the East End . |
| 7 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 8 | The only orders for new diesel locomotives placed during the 1970s and 1980s , were for locomotives designed specifically to haul freight . |
| 9 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 10 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 11 | The arrests were for alleged public order , criminal damage or drugs offences . |
| 12 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 13 | Other hallowed encounters which I enjoyed , such as London Irish v Bedford , were for diversion merely . |
| 14 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 15 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 16 | The IFS report Counting People With Low Incomes said that refusal ‘ does nothing to allay fears that the changes were for political rather than bona fide methodological reasons ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 19 | The sections were for agitation , public works , public feeding , the investigation and procurement of resources , and after February 1922 , a special section for the removal of church treasures . |
| 20 | The effect of high interest rates and a ‘ petro-pound ’ was to strengthen sterling ; the consequences were for exports to sag and for inflationary pressure to increase rather than diminish . |
| 21 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 22 | The back two rows of seats , from which every alternate arm rest had been removed , were for ‘ Couples Only ’ . |
| 23 | It was less clear what their ultimate intentions were for the company . |
| 24 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 25 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 26 | Boats were for hire by the hour and they had rowed on the lake . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of the 655 ‘ leaf-spring ’ Cobras built ( including the 75 original 260s ) , only 61 were officially listed as being for European consumption , and of course not even all of those were for Britain . |
| 29 | He sent the paintings but none were for sale . |
| 30 | The Arup scheme held centre stage , but the public , whose views were for once solicited , showed a very definite preference for the Simpson plan . |