Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 2 | Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home . |
| 3 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 4 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 5 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |
| 6 | As it was , it was impossible for even the most servile and well-meaning to avoid offence . |
| 7 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 8 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 9 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 10 | But most crucial was the fact that ICI itself became sceptical that this development was good for either the site or its image . |
| 11 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 12 | The range of available papers , judged by their partisanship , was inadequate for either the Libertarian or Public Service Ideals , though left-wing perspectives were articulated by a small minority of the press . |
| 13 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 14 | Hanif was responsible for both the largest and the longest individual innings in first-class history . |
| 15 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 16 | After all , it was one thing to show that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes , and sleeping sickness by the tsetse fly , quite another that the common , innocent and friendly house fly was responsible for virtually every other infectious disease known to man . |
| 17 | Before everything else , it was essential for both the Emperor and the nation that an Empress be found who could provide an heir . |
| 18 | He preferred the furtherance of his own prestige over the needs of his kingdom — especially England , from where he was absent for almost the entire period of his kingship . |
| 19 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 20 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 21 | She was silent for quite a long time . |
| 22 | The range of coins available was sufficient for even the smallest transactions , and we can glimpse from reading a Latin novel such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius or from the many papyri which have survived from Egypt that these societies used coinage very much as we do . |