Example sentences of "was [adj] for [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 2 | However , early proposals [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] that the two bodies should align ran into stiff opposition from neutral Ireland , from the UK and from the Netherlands , which maintained that the EC was unsuited for a role in European defence policy . |
| 3 | Already treated to Taxi , then Hill Street Blues , then Cheers , then Golden Girls , even the most insatiable Yankophile was unprepared for the shot in the comedic ass that was Roseanne . |
| 4 | There is no broadcast equivalent to ‘ popular press ’ , though the term ‘ pop radio , was current for a time in the 1970s . |
| 5 | Moreover , if such an increase in chlorophyll-specific production had occurred and was responsible for the changes in zooplankton biomass , the hypothesized increase in primary productivity would have to reflect an increase in new production which , in turn , must be fuelled by a systematic increase in nutrient supply to the region . |
| 6 | The United Somali Congress , drawn from the Hawiye Clan and its sub clans , was responsible for the fighting in Mogadishu . |
| 7 | It had been announced in mid-December 1989 that police were investigating allegations that Zhivkov 's son Vladimir Zhivkov was responsible for the death in suspicious circumstances in 1988 of Tatyana Tityanova , a television announcer , and that Zhivkov 's grandson Todor Slavkov had escaped prosecution after taking part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in July 1988 . |
| 8 | This was seen by critics ( e.g. CEFE 1983 : 27–33 ; 1984 : 73 ) as a vestige of the Francoist past when the ‘ objective ’ protection of the law was important for the workforce in the absence of the ‘ subjective ’ protection afforded by strong trade unions and collective bargaining . |
| 9 | Nationally , 1909 was notable for a blunder in the House of Lords by the use of a veto against the Budget of that year , which had been prepared by the Liberal-Labour group in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | ‘ . Also , note her rough notes scribbled on the paper till she was ready for the ideas in them . |