Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 80 unrelated control subjects , 53 were homozygous for the 3.6 kb fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 23 were heterozygous — that is , they possessed both the 3.6 kb and the 3.5 kb fragment ; 3.6/3.5 kb ) — and four were homozygous for the 3.5 kb fragment ( 3.5/3.5 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 2 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 3 | This was fortunate for the Hearts forward Ian Ferguson who was as surprised as anyone to remain on the field after flooring Gus Caesar with as good a right hook as has been seen this side of Madison Square Gardens for many a long day . |
| 4 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 5 | Yet even this was insufficient for the needs of a King who was indebted to the sum of £270,000 . |
| 6 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 7 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 8 | While this was true for the adult population , Yarmuk indicated that the younger of the bourgeois Palestinian class felt deep unease over their identity . |
| 9 | Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them . |
| 10 | Of 61 patients with gastric ulcer , 23 were homozygous for the large fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 32 were heterozygous for the RFLP ( 3.6/3.5 ) , and six were homozygous for the small fragment ( 3.5/ 3.5 ) . |
| 11 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 12 | The frescos also had high carbon levels , and these were responsible for the darkening of the paintings . |
| 13 | A hgh hepatitis C virus circulation ( in Italy the prevalence of blood donors positive for anti-hepatitis C virus ranges from 0.68 to 1.38% ) could well account for the high prevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus in our series of chronic liver disease with unknown aetiology ( 66 of 100 ) : of the 66 anti-hepatitis C virus positive cases , however , only 21 were positive for the autoantibodies currently considered as reliable markers of autoimmune hepatitis . |
| 14 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 15 | The Board interviewed five candidates ( listed below ) and unanimously agreed that while all were suitable for the post , it recommended that Miss Valerie Muirhead be offered the post , to be taken up as soon as possible , at a salary two points below the maximum of the AA main scale . |
| 16 | All were eyeless for the crows and ravens pluck the succulent pieces first . |
| 17 | All was well for the next fortnight , then Jonathan phoned up to say that his infection had returned . |
| 18 | However , we ran out of the fog somewhere near Fort Augustus and all was well for the rest of that trip . |
| 19 | Quite often Catholic groups gave support to Franco against the Socialist Republican government , on the grounds that the latter was responsible for the burning of churches and the murdering of Catholics . |
| 20 | The latter was responsible for the track , its foundations and the paving , while the Company provided the electrical equipment , together with the power station , depot and cars . |
| 21 | One of those was responsible for the biggest earthquake of this century . ’ |
| 22 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 23 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 24 | By such means it is possible , within the Lancashire Coal Measures for example , to demonstrate that very rapid sedimentation alternated with very slow sedimentation and that the former was responsible for the bulk of at least some parts of the record . |
| 25 | Of 61 patients with gastric ulcer , 23 were homozygous for the large fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 32 were heterozygous for the RFLP ( 3.6/3.5 ) , and six were homozygous for the small fragment ( 3.5/ 3.5 ) . |
| 26 | Of 61 patients with gastric ulcer , 23 were homozygous for the large fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 32 were heterozygous for the RFLP ( 3.6/3.5 ) , and six were homozygous for the small fragment ( 3.5/ 3.5 ) . |
| 27 | Age Concern wrote in December to social security minister Nicholas Scott expressing anger severely disabled people over 65 were ineligible for the 1993 Fund . |
| 28 | At the beginning of January only 37430 was available for the Cambrian Coast Express and is in poor shape . |
| 29 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 30 | Many churches were also built , after the adoption of Christianity , and Justinian in particular was responsible for the erection of the most famous of these . |