Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 2 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 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 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 6 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 7 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 9 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 10 | By the mid-1930s such ‘ option ’ arrangements were characteristic of private sector provision also ; it was for the male breadwinner alone to decide whether he would so provide for his dependants or take his full pension on retirement . |
| 11 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 12 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 13 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 14 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 15 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |
| 16 | It was for the great annual festa of 3 September , with its cattle fairs , bullfights and zarzuelas . |
| 17 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 18 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 20 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 21 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 22 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 23 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 24 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 25 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 26 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 28 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 29 | As it happened , it was for the best . |
| 30 | Her soul , God rest it , it has left — People say " it was for the best " . |