Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 2 | The response in this area was far more positive than it was for simple strumming . |
| 3 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 4 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |
| 5 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 6 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 7 | The studies that have been undertaken on early Anglo-Saxon pottery emphasise that , unlike the more exotic materials discussed above , it rarely travelled far from a clay source to the point of consumption , regardless of whether it was for funerary or domestic purposes ; some classes of funerary pottery may have been transported further . |
| 8 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 9 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 10 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 11 | At every point in those historic struggles which founded the Protestant and radical traditions in Europe , and which severed radicalism from the body of the Catholic Church , the struggle was as much for personal gain or for political or economic dominance as it was for any pure-hearted vision of goodness . |
| 12 | In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s . |
| 13 | She reported that the diet was particularly suitable for her , just as it was for those with a high cholesterol level . |
| 14 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 15 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |
| 16 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |