Example sentences of "were [adj] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 34E and 55E were due for their annual inspection , servicing and relicensing , which took place on 15 and 27 July respectively . |
| 2 | Harbury 's green eyes were alert for her slightest response . |
| 3 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 4 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 5 | She got on very well with most of the men , since , whatever their personal views on her , they admired and were grateful for her professional skill . |
| 6 | The council of ministers were intriguing for their own gains . |
| 7 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 8 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 9 | Yes but if they truly were answerable for their own budgets |
| 10 | Former enemies of the nation were welcome for their hard currency , new technology and to some extent their social and political ideas . |
| 11 | A man who grew 1,659 cannabis plants said he was a ‘ heavy smoker ’ and claimed that they were all for his own use . |
| 12 | Aware that the Danes were famous for their elegant designs and their ‘ down comforters ’ she was n't surprised to find her single bed covered by a thick duvet quilt , or to discover the fitted furniture was simply but efficiently styled . |
| 13 | When I came aboard they did n't have a lead amp line as such ; they were famous for their bass amps , obviously , but their lead amp line was just there , no real profile , and the consumer did n't really realise that they had anything other than bass amps . |
| 14 | By 1935 passenger lists were as glittering as those of the ocean liners ; insurance companies had decided that aeroplanes were safe for their valuable clients and many Hollywood actors and actresses took to the skies like the stars they were . |
| 15 | Over the past two years , the two semiconductor factories in Sindelfingen , and Bblingen especially , were renowned for their high production costs . |
| 16 | or : No , the Liberals were responsible for their own decline . |
| 17 | They are popular group , and the fiercest lobby in the business : no one asks of widows — as they do of unmarried mothers or the divorced — whether they were responsible for their own plight . |
| 18 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 19 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 20 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |
| 21 | Historically records have usually been preserved because organisations thought that they were important for their own work , and departing from this principle might well create more problems than it would solve . |
| 22 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 23 | R. A. Butler , the new Chancellor , was , moreover , unwilling to take chances on market forces in areas which were vital for his economic strategy , such as the export drive . |
| 24 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 25 | Birch 's piers were noteworthy for their screw-pile method of construction , which he pioneered at Margate . |
| 26 | They were novel for their extreme lightness ( 0.9kg ) , and the use of a shock-absorbing EVA wedge in their sole construction : now quite widely used . |