Example sentences of "it was for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |