Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun sg] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many years ago when I started in the profession , it was standard practice for auditors to mark clients ' records with a vouching mark or audit stamp . |
| 2 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 3 | It was hopeless waiting for miracles , he said . |
| 4 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 5 | It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men — 30 was not uncommon . |
| 6 | It was pure idiocy for countries to destroy each other on account of the few responsible for causing the war ; ‘ there was always talk of a long peace , and things were only really being made ready for this war . ’ |
| 7 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 8 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 9 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |