Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 2 | Such was their purported evidence for a gamma ray from a neutron capture , an essential piece of the case for fusion taking place in their test-tube . |
| 3 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 4 | His Third ( and again unnumbered ) Symphony is subtitled ‘ Urbs Roma ’ and was his winning entry for a competition in Bordeaux in 1856 . |
| 5 | All the press were very excited about Ade , writing that he was our big hope for the European Indoor Championships in Madrid . |