Example sentences of "was [num] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was eight pound for the whole pack and all the spacers . |
| 2 | The risk of diluting the nature of the surveyor 's duty to his client was one reason for the restrictive rules about investment holdings . |
| 3 | No doubt that was one reason for the deep-rooted Labour hostility to devolution , and there were other reasons . |
| 4 | Non-conformist outrage at the Education Act was one reason for the Conservative defeat in the election of December 1905 . |
| 5 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |