Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 2 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 3 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 4 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 5 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |