Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These workshops were responsible for only that part of the production process or those components of the final product most sensitive to labour cost differentials , and have been located principally in South-East Asia and parts of Latin America ( Grunwald and Flamm , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Yet such interference was possible for only one ruler of Imperial Russia : Peter the Great . |
| 3 | A white cow used to provide milk for everyone in the locality , but it was customary for only one pailful to he taken . |
| 4 | Once again the carbonates came into contact with meteoric water and this was responsible for yet another episode of leaching . |
| 5 | Hawkins was silent for quite some time , then said : ‘ How are you going to pin on a couple of posthumous VCs or whatever when you 're circling the earth in a vaporized orbit ? ’ |
| 6 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |