Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 2 | The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown . |
| 3 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
| 4 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 5 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |