Example sentences of "of [pron] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 3 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 4 | In 1987 , 2.16 million summonses were issued under this Administrative Default Procedure , two thirds of which were for less than £500 — there were only 1.98 million in 1983 . |
| 5 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |