Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books .
2	The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel .
3	The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 .
4	In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts .
5	Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead .
6	Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs .
7	Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough .
8	Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town .
9	" Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt .
10	According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force .

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