Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [adj] authority " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as Gloucester was the loyal servant of the crown , what was good for him was good for royal authority , and Edward 's acceptance of that fact enormously strengthened the duke 's hand . |
| 2 | It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority . |
| 3 | As long as Gloucester was the loyal servant of the crown , what was good for him was good for royal authority , and Edward 's acceptance of that fact enormously strengthened the duke 's hand . |
| 4 | It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority . |
| 5 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |