Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 2 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 3 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 4 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 5 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 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 . |