Example sentences of "[pron] be for some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 2 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 3 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 4 | By 1922 it was for some such a strong attitude as almost to obliterate the normal responses of party . |
| 5 | Very widely read and a lover of drama and music , he was for some thirty years one of the most influential members of the famous Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne . |