Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 2 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 4 | I thought that was important for the long-term development of a band . |
| 5 | Saussure called for , not the abandonment of diachronic study , but the recognition that synchronic and diachronic study led to different kinds of knowledge , and that both were necessary for the true understanding of language . |