Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The fittings were individually made for each example , with only a general standardisation . |
| 3 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 4 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 5 | The employers were about to remove theirs by what its American champions were to call ‘ scientific management ’ , but in our period they were still groping for this solution . |
| 6 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |
| 7 | Contact 's staff were well qualified for this type of work . |
| 8 | Mean values for pre- and post-common cavity pressures were then derived for each child . |
| 9 | The two biologists were never mistaken for each other . |
| 10 | And frankly the tubes were never designed for that kind of service . ’ |
| 11 | And frankly the tubes were never designed for that kind of service . ’ |
| 12 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 13 | I 've talked to the designer , Dick Denney , and Dick said that they were definitely made for this market , so I guess they probably perform better in the UK . ’ |