Example sentences of "what passed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 2 | Friendship there , or what passed for friendship , never crossed the great divide of political allegiance and in the acrimonious clamour of the staffroom could swiftly deteriorate into gossip , rumours , recriminations and betrayal . |
| 3 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 4 | They jogged round a corner , and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat , Arizona . |
| 5 | The sound was over and silence was back , or what passed for silence here . |
| 6 | But from somewhere in the fog of received wisdom and what passed for it , struggling to be heard above the sound of cracking whips , a persistent and unrepentant voice relayed a subversive message . |
| 7 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 8 | Sir Anthony 's lips slid over his small teeth in what passed for his public smile , and he accepted , without waiting for their answer . |
| 9 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 10 | Since it was to be a fortnightly , the best thing was to alternate with the other half of what passed for London 's alternative press , Private Eye . |
| 11 | What passed for reality on the discworld reasserted itself with a rush of sound . |
| 12 | And if you want to see what passed for America 's energy policy , you 're looking at it . |