Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 2 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 3 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 4 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 5 | However , slum clearance and replacement was for the poor . |
| 6 | The standard agreement which Copeland 's company had with such acts as Caravan , the Climax Blues Band , Wishbone Ash and Squeeze was for a 50–50 split — a worse arrangement than the one Copeland had encouraged Sting to sue Branson over . |
| 7 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 8 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 9 | The Money Market — like Acceptance Credits and commercial paper — offered lower cost but less flexibility because credit was for a fixed term . |
| 10 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |