Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So God 's promises to Abraham were not just for the selfish enjoyment of a chosen few . |
| 2 | Three routes were out forward for the first section and two for the southern section . |
| 3 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 4 | Two groups were n't enough for the actual experiment , though ; I needed six . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're all on these little labels that were primarily there for the tourists , like Waikiki and Hula records . |
| 6 | Tim Smith could have blown this kick over , but it was downhill then for the rest of the first half . |
| 7 | She was rarely there for the full rehearsals . |
| 8 | But the time was long past for the final roll-call of his battalion of the People 's Militia , recruited to defend Berlin 's Wilhelmplatz district against the advance of the Red Army . |
| 9 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 10 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
| 11 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 12 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
| 13 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 14 | When I was down there for the weekend I was speaking their accent . |
| 15 | He was only home for the weekend . |
| 16 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 17 | I am sorry that the hon. Lady was not here for the debate . |
| 18 | There were tribunals which had jurisdiction if a certain state of facts existed but not otherwise ; it was not then for the inferior tribunal to determine conclusively upon the existence of such facts . |
| 19 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 20 | The conclusions of this study , which were delivered at the end of 1989 , confirmed the widely held view that takeover activity in the Community was operating on a one-way street : while the UK market was open to takeovers , this was not so for the rest of the Community . |
| 21 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
| 22 | But that was not enough for the new Chancellor , Denis Healey . |
| 23 | In Libya the peace which flowed from state justice , impersonal , universal , was not enough for the Zuwaya : they added to it peaces of their own manufacture , tailored to the social personalities involved in particular breaches of the peace , guaranteed by specific and contingent undertakings made between Muslims . |
| 24 | This qualification is important : it was not enough for the testator to have a general intention that certain property should pass to a certain person . |
| 25 | But the scholarship was worth only £100 and , though his school plundered its scarce resources to add £20 , it was not enough for the boy to support himself at Cambridge . |
| 26 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 27 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 28 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 29 | Next day it was up early for the short trip to EuroDisney . |
| 30 | It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’ |