Example sentences of "[Wh det] was for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) .
2 Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum .
3 I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well .
4 The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster .
5 One morning , early in May , I was wakened by what was for a town-bred boy a startling commotion .
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