Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 2 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 3 | And it was done for the best , although I must admit it did n't turn out like that . |
| 4 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 5 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 6 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 7 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 8 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 9 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 10 | It was certified for the first time in 1986 . |
| 11 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 12 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 13 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 14 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 15 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |
| 16 | Car 127 was a similar snow plough , based at Fleetwood depot , where it survived until 1960 , when it was restored for the 75th Anniversary and re-numbered 2 , its Company number . |