Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where rationalism was inclined to search for ‘ the eternal truths of reason ’ , and to disregard or dismiss from serious consideration anything more mundane , the Romantic was one who sought to appreciate and sense the rich diversity of life and wonder over its multifarious forms and expressions . |
| 2 | What if , a month before the game , the Chief Constable had advised that 50 officers would be required in the ground but the Club was willing to pay for only 25 ? |
| 3 | Metcalfe was first dropped for the game against Kent but returned at Basingstoke after two half centuries in a second team match and he was the top aggregate scorer against Hampshire . |
| 4 | The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them . |
| 5 | My hon. and learned Friend was able to apply for an Adjournment debate . |
| 6 | Lydia in the leading car was loth to hoot for fear of maddening the dogs and loth to get out for the same reason . |
| 7 | After the murder of Gaveston the baronial opposition disintegrated and Edward was able to prepare for a campaign against the Scots , but when this ended in the humiliating defeat of his forces at Bannockburn in June 1314 the earl of Lancaster again united the hopes of the disillusioned baronage . |
| 8 | The rolled-over ceiling figure was supposed to allow for an increase of some 300,000 bpd in Kuwaiti output by the end of the third quarter . |
| 9 | In fact , Johnrose was due to play for Preston at Pool a week ago , but he picked up a calf injury in the pre-match warm-up and missed the game . |
| 10 | Poland and the Russian Federation signed a trade agreement on Sept. 4 to bridge the gap caused by a sharp fall in exports to the Soviet Union , formerly Poland 's main customer until the two countries began trading in hard currency in January and the Soviet side was unable to pay for most of its purchases . |
| 11 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 12 | The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 . |
| 13 | v. Wilts United Dairies the question arose whether the Food Controller was entitled to charge for the granting of a licence under this Order . |
| 14 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 15 | ‘ Fate was kind to arrange for Penry to be there just when he was needed most . ’ |
| 16 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 17 | As stage manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival , he was at Bob Dylan 's elbow after the singer was first barracked for using electric instruments . |
| 18 | But Fiver was nowhere to be seen and Hazel was afraid to ask for him , in case to do so should seem like weakness and a need for comfort . |
| 19 | By proposing this ingenious but patently artificial contrivance , Friedman was able to account for the non-neutrality of money in the short run . |
| 20 | The venue was last used for gigs eight years ago , when such local luminaries as UB40 and Duran Duran appeared there . |
| 21 | Entry to the old Establishment was hard to achieve for outsiders , but once they were in , the successful ones , the safe pairs of hands , tended to stay in . |
| 22 | The first recorded aquarium introduction was in 1914 but the fish was first described for science in 1831 by Cuvier and Valenciennes . |
| 23 | I am convinced that Victorian prudery was much to blame for this , and modern treatment might have much ameliorated it . |
| 24 | He suggests that RNA was first used for purely structural purposes , as oil drillers use tannins or we use soap and detergents . |
| 25 | Even when my application was on its way I still could n't convince myself that what I was doing was likely to qualify for any kind of grant . |
| 26 | The room was empty save for a pile of cushions and blankets in one corner and an enormous television set on a stool in the middle of the earthen floor . |
| 27 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 28 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 29 | John Whitaker was anxious to qualify for tonight 's Next International Masters and the Dutch rider , Jos Lansink , had an even more obvious reason for abandoning speed in favour of accuracy when jumping a slow clear round to be be fourth on Optiebeurs Felix . |
| 30 | Most interestingly however , the equivalent region of the HPV 6/11 URR was unable to compete for Oct-1 binding in these experiments , even at four hundred fold excess indicating that it does not represent a functional binding site for Oct-1 . |