Example sentences of "was for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 2 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 3 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 4 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 5 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 8 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 9 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 11 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 12 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 13 | As it happened , it was for the best . |
| 14 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 15 | Her soul , God rest it , it has left — People say " it was for the best " . |
| 16 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 17 | Glass accepts this was for the best . |
| 18 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 19 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 20 | His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker-faced Guards Officer . |
| 21 | Yes , fish it was for the mental energy to face our new situation . |
| 22 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 23 | The invitation was for the 19th . |
| 24 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 25 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 26 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 27 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 30 | The building was opened on the ninth anniversary of her death in 1862 and was for the consumptive poor . |