Example sentences of "[ex0] was for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image .
2 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 .
3 Well there was for six months .
4 There was for six months when I was there .
5 There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion .
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