Example sentences of "[adj] was [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 2 | This was adequate for secondary surfaces but the primary surface of the table top had to be treated very differently . |
| 3 | WHILE your article about how little revenue from charity Christmas cards reached the charities concerned was accurate for certain card retailers , it tarred many hundreds of volunteers with the same brush , to the detriment of the wonderful charities they support . |
| 4 | The former was desirable for obvious reasons , the latter scarcely less so . |
| 5 | Then I remembered — the word ‘ tawdry ’ comes from ‘ St Audrey ’ , whose English feast and fair was notorious for vulgar souvenir stalls in the Middle Ages . |