Example sentences of "it was for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 3 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | It was for the great annual festa of 3 September , with its cattle fairs , bullfights and zarzuelas . |
| 11 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 12 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 14 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 15 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 16 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 17 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 19 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 20 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 22 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 23 | As it happened , it was for the best . |
| 24 | Her soul , God rest it , it has left — People say " it was for the best " . |
| 25 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 26 | Yes , fish it was for the mental energy to face our new situation . |
| 27 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 28 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 29 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 30 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |