Example sentences of "[was/were] for the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 2 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 3 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 4 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 5 | And then the other room was for the bigger , the elder ones . |
| 6 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 7 | One recommendation was for the older pupils to be divided into four occupational groups : engineering ; commerce ; domestic work ; and industries for which no vocational instruction was necessary . |
| 8 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |