Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adj] for the " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet even this was insufficient for the needs of a King who was indebted to the sum of £270,000 . |
| 5 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 6 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 7 | While this was true for the adult population , Yarmuk indicated that the younger of the bourgeois Palestinian class felt deep unease over their identity . |
| 8 | The frescos also had high carbon levels , and these were responsible for the darkening of the paintings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All were eyeless for the crows and ravens pluck the succulent pieces first . |
| 11 | All was well for the next fortnight , then Jonathan phoned up to say that his infection had returned . |
| 12 | However , we ran out of the fog somewhere near Fort Augustus and all was well for the rest of that trip . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of those was responsible for the biggest earthquake of this century . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The same was true for the electorate 's awareness of party leaders . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | more I did I never got anything for but that was easy for the dockers and easy for me . |
| 23 | Johnstone of Lochwood and Jardine of Applegirth led the way , in their element , for this was just their accustomed Border reiving on a larger scale , and they knew all the hidden ways to go , darkness hereafter no trouble , since that was normal for the business . |
| 24 | I thought that was nice for the boys . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to sell them , but if an offer came in that was right for the club and right for the player , then we would consider it , just as any club would in the lower divisions in the same position . |
| 26 | I thought that was important for the long-term development of a band . |
| 27 | That was lucky for the Manchester side as the Danish official turned down no less than four strident claims for penalties . |
| 28 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 29 | The eruption did not stop after the destruction of the city , though , and the nuee that was responsible for the tragedy was in volcanic terms a relatively minor affair and it was by no means the last from Mt Pelee . |
| 30 | In her heart of hearts she had blamed Paul for his unrelenting pressure , but it was her own weakness , her failure to stand up to him , that was responsible for the situation . |