Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was effective for a while with Colchester taking the set 15–7 and then moving into a 2–1 lead , but it was less successful in the fourth set as Nomads began equalling Colchester 's attacking strength . |
| 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 | This was fantastic for a little boy who had never seen such a toy . |
| 6 | Yet even this was insufficient for the needs of a King who was indebted to the sum of £270,000 . |
| 7 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 8 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 9 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 10 | This was unprecedented for a daily paper : most were selling in the range 90 — 250,000 . |
| 11 | While this was true for the adult population , Yarmuk indicated that the younger of the bourgeois Palestinian class felt deep unease over their identity . |
| 12 | So far as the grounds for issuing such warrants were concerned , these were first for the detection of serious crime , and , secondly , for safeguarding the security of the state . |
| 13 | The frescos also had high carbon levels , and these were responsible for the darkening of the paintings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All were eyeless for the crows and ravens pluck the succulent pieces first . |
| 16 | All was well for the next fortnight , then Jonathan phoned up to say that his infection had returned . |
| 17 | However , we ran out of the fog somewhere near Fort Augustus and all was well for the rest of that trip . |
| 18 | So , with the death of Ferdinand all was quiet for a time . |
| 19 | And if there was a gap in the traffic and all was quiet for a moment , you might hear all sorts of weird twitterings , squawks , toowoos , cheeps and hoots . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One of those was responsible for the biggest earthquake of this century . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The same was true for the electorate 's awareness of party leaders . |
| 25 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 26 | Indeed , Eid & Sollner-Web ( 15 ) found that 87 base pairs of homology was all that was necessary for the second crossover event of insertion into the T.brucei calmodulin gene locus , as long as there was an extensive region of homology ( 6-7 kb ) for the first crossover . |
| 27 | They met near Waterloo station because that was good for a train from Dartford . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 29 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 30 | In addition , Richards has indicated the strength of the connection between cremation urns and the deceased as there appears to have been ‘ a collective conception of the urn form that was appropriate for the burial of a person of a particular age , sex , ethnic , totemic , or other social grouping ’ ( Richards 1982 , p. 43 ) . |