Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were good times for the intrepid forefathers of our breed . |
| 2 | These were all blows for the home side yet , with skipper John Rafferty providing the kind of leadership that is reserved for ‘ Boys Own ’ stories , Armagh suddenly hauled themselves out of the grave . |
| 3 | These were significant problems for the majority , who were both illiterate and poor . |
| 4 | These were difficult times for the voices of pacifism to make themselves heard . |
| 5 | These were exciting years for the Catholic Church in Latin America . |
| 6 | The title of the lecture in which these words appeared was Art-history as an Academic Study , but those were early days for the subject in the British Isles ; only in London was there undergraduate teaching , at the Courtauld Institute which opened in 1933 . |