Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 2 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 3 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 4 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 5 | I did what I thought was right for the most precious thing in the world to me . |
| 6 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 7 | Yet no-one could ever have doubted either his sincerity or integrity in fighting for what he always felt was right for the game . |
| 8 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 9 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 10 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 11 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 12 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 13 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 14 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 15 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 16 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 17 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 18 | Although involved in the Great Leap Forward ( 1958-60 ) and the Cultural Revolution ( 1966-76 ) , he later recognized that both had been disastrous for the country 's economic development . |
| 19 | Sartre 's philosophical grounding of ‘ History ’ , therefore , foundered in the second volume when the logic of history inexorably brought him , not to totalization without a totalizer , but to the very reverse : the figure of Stalin and the conclusion that Stalinism had been indispensable for the development of socialism in the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 21 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 22 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 23 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 24 | Mother and Leo had been seasick for the duration of the crossing and had lain inert on deck-chairs . |
| 25 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 26 | The Netherlands space agency , NIVR , had been responsible for the spacecraft that carries the telescope , and which houses the instruments to control the satellite 's ‘ attitude ’ , or pointing direction , and to store the data collected . |
| 27 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 28 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 29 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 30 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |