Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [was/were] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 3 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 4 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 5 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 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 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 9 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 10 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |