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 cold comfort for the Welsh coach , John Ryan , who by a neat irony was at Twickenham ( watching Harlequins v Swansea ) .
3 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 .
4 These were good times for the intrepid forefathers of our breed .
5 These were significant problems for the majority , who were both illiterate and poor .
6 These were difficult times for the voices of pacifism to make themselves heard .
7 These were exciting years for the Catholic Church in Latin America .
8 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 .
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