Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified . |
| 2 | Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years . |
| 3 | He washed his face in the perfume that was her love for him . |
| 4 | My uncle Fred , whom we had stayed with as Viceroy of India , was a Fellow of All Souls , the only college without undergraduates , and was its Warden for two terms before he died in 1933 . |
| 5 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |