Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was appalling news for the British companies , none of which had anything like the clout necessary to claim membership of the MPPC . |
| 2 | This was some compensation for the fact that she was almost certainly no better at the piano . |
| 3 | This was more power for the cause — these people use tea bags and drive on the wrong side of the road , they hang fish on clothes lines and then eat them dry . |
| 4 | This was cold comfort for the Welsh coach , John Ryan , who by a neat irony was at Twickenham ( watching Harlequins v Swansea ) . |
| 5 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 6 | These were good times for the intrepid forefathers of our breed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These were significant problems for the majority , who were both illiterate and poor . |
| 9 | These were difficult times for the voices of pacifism to make themselves heard . |
| 10 | These were exciting years for the Catholic Church in Latin America . |
| 11 | 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 . |