Example sentences of "[pron] was for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 2 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 3 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 4 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 5 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 6 | When United held the upper hand , which was for most of the first half , they were more dominant than Aberdeen were after the interval . |
| 7 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 8 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |
| 9 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 10 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 11 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 12 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 13 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |
| 14 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 15 | It was for such reason that most of Petipa 's famous pas de deux take place centre stage , whilst those of Ashton and MacMillan cover the whole area as befits their more flowing lyrical styles , |
| 16 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 17 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 18 | He thought he could remember that he and Peter had fastened their rope to a spur or spike of rock and accordingly it was for such a feature that he searched . |
| 19 | Although the auditors ' report was addressed to ‘ the members ’ of Berg , it was for all practical purposes addressed to G alone . |
| 20 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 21 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 22 | It was for that very reason that I declined appointment as a judge . |
| 23 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 24 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 25 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 26 | Although almost all working-class housing in the novel is of that type , since it can better be represented as a ‘ home ’ , it was for that very reason much too expensive for the very poor . |
| 27 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 28 | It was for that reason that I never showed him my poem ‘ To Thomas Hardy in 1940 ’ . |
| 29 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 30 | And so it was for Former Labour Leader Michael Foot and front bench spokesmen , Chris Smith and Donald Dewar as they slugged it out with John Patten and Peter Lilley . |