Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he insisted that they were due for a cold meal yesterday . |
| 2 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 3 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 4 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 5 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 6 | But most Roman varieties were unsuitable for the British climate and the Norman varieties rapidly took precedence . |
| 7 | Two minutes later Pompey were grateful for a magnificent save when Knight denied Luca Pazzaglia . |
| 8 | The fine weather made the push even harder work , and participants and spectators alike were grateful for the cooling drinks available from stalls manned by Fowey branch members . |
| 9 | Thus , eight versions were possible for a given material . |
| 10 | Both those statements were momentous for the Royal Family but the historical impact of Charles and Diana 's separation is likely to be greater . |
| 11 | Hopes were high for a pleasant summer 's day fishing , but unfortunately this was not to be : heavy wind and rain — and a stomach-churning eight foot swell — resulted in a lot of green faces and a fewer that expected number of fish being caught . |
| 12 | The dishes finally finished and stowed in their racks , it appeared that we were free for a blessed couple of hours : reassembly on the dot of five-thirty . |
| 13 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 14 | Her interests in the paranormal were unorthodox for a Communist but not unusual among the post-religious élite in Brezhnev-s Europe . |
| 15 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 16 | Today , classrooms were empty for the second day running . |
| 17 | The adrenaline responses ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) were similar for the two insulins ( area under the curve 138 ( 25 ) nmol/l/ 240 min ( human ) v 138 ( 21 ) nmol/l/240 min ( porcine ) ; 95% confidence interval -51 to 51 ; p=0.9 ) . |
| 18 | Median ( range ) symptom scores at the lowest glucose concentration were similar for the two insulins ( total score : human 8 ( 0–21 ) v porcine 6 ( 0–31 ) ( 95% confidence interval -4 to 3 , Z =0.54 , p=0.59 ) ; autonomic score : 3 ( 0–9 ) v 3 ( 0–10 ) , ( -2 to 2 , Z =-0.25 , p=0.79 ) ; and neuroglycopenic score : 2 ( 0–16 ) v 5 ( 0–21 ) , ( -3.5 to 2 , Z =-0.47 , p=0.63 ) ) . |
| 19 | The results and significance were similar for the earlier series although more pronounced ( Table III ) . |
| 20 | According to a pamphlet of 1704 , the present war was about whether England should be a popish or a Protestant country , since Louis XIV was advancing the cause of a popish prince to the throne of Great Britain , whilst at home the strength of the papists was increased " by the Non-Jurors and Disaffected Persons of all sorts " , who were zealous for a popish prince . |
| 21 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 22 | ‘ What are you staring at , Squib ? ’ he said , almost angrily , conscious that his cheeks were warm for the third time that afternoon . |
| 23 | The overall correlations between the scores on the two tests were 0.80 for the two pairs of parallel mental tests ( N = 51 and N = 114 ) and 0.66 ( N = 104 ) for the written tests . |
| 24 | The quarrel spread to Seville and Cadiz , where the friends of Romana and Palafox were the bitterest opponents of the Central Junta 's claims and were intriguing for an amenable Regency or a military government based on popular feeling whipped up against the Junta . |
| 25 | Well when she 's level Clare means she 's well ahead of herself and now she 's got , you could give her books that were appropriate for a ten year old and she could read them |
| 26 | Naturally , no one could move into any of the new flats until the presidential apartments in the palace were fit for the top comrades , so the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism took on a ghostly lifeless quality with its empty layer of flats and its vacant shops on the ground floor . |
| 27 | A recent survey conducted by the accountancy firm Arthur Anderson showed that four out of 10 companies in the Community were unprepared for the new VAT regime . |
| 28 | Looking back , there 's no doubt that we were too impatient and were unprepared for the major impact of the change from institution to community care on all concerned . |
| 29 | In Champagne itself , in exceptionally hot vintages like 1947 , 1959 and 1976 , the sugar-acid ratios were inappropriate for the fine balance of Champagne . |
| 30 | In 1933 the Nazis increased their number of seats on the Volkstag to 38 , and were present for the first time in sufficient numbers to have an effect on the business and workings of the chamber . |