Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was particularly true for the capital . |
| 2 | This was particularly important for the hospitals , since now a unified public service could be provided . |
| 3 | This was more educative for the staff than the students . |
| 4 | Due to the computational intensity of the system , this was only successful for the simplest of sentences with very few alternative words . |
| 5 | This was very unfortunate for the Trinovantes , the oldest allies of Rome in Britain . |
| 6 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 7 | This was too much for the professor and Doisneau was ordered by a French court to destroy the original negative . |
| 8 | Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny . |
| 9 | This was definitely one for the album and after several quick shots back she went — not quite a grand-daddy but getting closer . |
| 10 | This was as well for the 1930's came all too soon , with more depression , and in its wake an even more terrible war . |
| 11 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ This was once difficult for the prosecution to prove as there were numerous local taxation offices which issued driving licences . |
| 12 | Probably this was damned difficult for the people at Ferrari to understand and Niki was always capable of being the supreme turn-off . |
| 13 | This was especially dangerous for the urban , professional paterfamilias , ‘ the hardworked , intellectual married man residing in London ’ , whose health was at risk from the cumulative strain of metropolitan life and frenetic mental labour . |
| 14 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 15 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
| 16 | Further declines in infant mortality and substantial declines in mortality of older adults had to await the twentieth century , where the former was substantially responsible for the improved trend in expectation of life ( see Woods and Hinde 1987 ) . |
| 17 | That was particularly true for the generation I grew up in . |
| 18 | remember here well that was certainly true for the Wintertime . |
| 19 | That was quite difficult for the production team to follow . |
| 20 | That was too much for the coroner . |