Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 2 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 3 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 4 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 5 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 6 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 7 | The original intention had been for the Quins players , seven of whom were in England 's Grand Slam squad , to have Easter off . |
| 8 | The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost . |
| 9 | The original plan had been for a rapid take-over of military and political control in Madrid , accompanied by risings in the other main cities and the convergence on the capital of detachments from the provinces to consolidate the coup and force the transfer of power . |
| 10 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 11 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 12 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 13 | These ranged from switching to Highers in non-science subjects when the original intention had been SCE/GCE science to a degree in building and surveying when the original application had been for a place on an access course in science and technology . |