Example sentences of "be that it was [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat .
2 In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music .
3 The mystery was that it was successful for more than thirty years .
4 The government 's view was that it was necessary for JMB to continue in operation to maintain international confidence in the banking system and in the London gold market .
5 What she liked about the shop was that it was open for business on every day of the year .
6 It was that it was unfair for the single-person household to pay the same as the household with two , three , four or five members .
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