Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 2 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 3 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 4 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 6 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 7 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 8 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 9 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 10 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 11 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 12 | This time it was for a new church in Gainsborough to honour the Lincolnshire-born John Robinson , pastor to the ‘ Pilgrim Fathers ’ although he did not actually sail in the Mayflower . |
| 13 | Those who were libelled in the Fanzine may feel less aggrieved knowing it was for a good cause . |
| 14 | The idea is to note the activity ( which is planned by the classteacher alongside other teachers ) very briefly , to describe whether it was for a whole class , a group , or perhaps an individual . |
| 15 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 16 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 17 | It was for a single person really was n't it there ? |
| 18 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 19 | Did n't even tell me it was for a special train for er Liverpool you know . |
| 20 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 21 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 22 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 24 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 25 | By the mid-1930s such ‘ option ’ arrangements were characteristic of private sector provision also ; it was for the male breadwinner alone to decide whether he would so provide for his dependants or take his full pension on retirement . |
| 26 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 27 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 28 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 29 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 30 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |