Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 2 | Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls . |
| 3 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |
| 4 | And what a great day it was for 82-year-old George Mitchell of the Belmont Club . |
| 5 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 6 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 7 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |
| 8 | However , financial security is no longer the problem it was for most people ; welfare systems ensure survival . |