Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's Cooperative Guild members also contrasted them unfavourably with their own more democratic Guild meetings , deploring the way in which ‘ ladies came and lectured on the domestic affairs in the workers ’ homes that it was impossible for them to understand' . |
| 2 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 3 | We were told by our parents that it was bad for our health to drink a lot of water in such heat , so we all became very thin , as well as very brown , in the sun . |
| 4 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 5 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 6 | When he had recovered from his embarrassment , Alexei 's father had freed her — on the grounds that it was improper for a woman to be bought and sold like merchandise — and with Mei Ling 's consent had opted to marry her . |