Example sentences of "[adv] was for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance . |
2 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
3 | Fifty years before , gold had been discovered at Bathurst and wages had been spectacular , but those boom times were well over and the rush now was for any job at all and to fight to keep it . |
4 | All that was required then was for one of these tormentors to fall ill or suffer a sudden accident and the old ‘ witch ’ was to blame . |
5 | The CEMWC 's suggestion of 17 , as opposed to 16 as the age of consent then was for heterosexual relations , was made on the basis that the higher age would provide ‘ better protection of youth ’ . |
6 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |