Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 2 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 3 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 4 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 5 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 6 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 7 | The idea is to note the activity ( which is planned by the classteacher alongside other teachers ) very briefly , to describe whether it was for a whole class , a group , or perhaps an individual . |
| 8 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 9 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 10 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 11 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 12 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 13 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 14 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 15 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 16 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |