Example sentences of "[conj] it was for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
2 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
3 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
4 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
5 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
6 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
7 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
8 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
9 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
10 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
11 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
12 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
13 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
14 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
15 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
16 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
17 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
18 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
19 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
20 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |