Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence . |
| 2 | This occurred for a number of reasons : laparoscopy became a widely used diagnostic tool , with diagnosis no longer being restricted to patients with disease severe enough to warrant laparotomy , and gynaecologists became aware of the myriad visual appearances of endometriosis which represent evolution of the disease through visually distinct stages to the relatively inactive classic blue-black lesions . |
| 3 | Nothing much happened for a couple of days , which was fine by me . |
| 4 | ‘ Farnborough is where it all began for a lot of people . |
| 5 | The yellow chair , besides being brushstrokes and pigment , besides being a yellow chair , was one of twelve bought for a company of artists who were to inhabit the Yellow House , the white walls of which should blaze with sunflowers as the windows of Gothic cathedrals blazed with coloured light . |
| 6 | That lasted for a couple of weeks and it was a very scary moment — January or February of 1988 . |
| 7 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |