Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 2 | I believe you were due for the afternoon off tomorrow . |
| 3 | A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath . |
| 4 | A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath . |
| 5 | Since my remarks were unnecessary for the decision , R. not having yet attained the age of 16 , I am free to reconsider the matter and to reach an opposite conclusion . |
| 6 | She had examined each one carefully , discarding then re-examining until she was satisfied that the gift was rich enough without being ostentatious , that the stones , the colours , were right for the girl . |
| 7 | After that it was a matter of negotiating a passage with the captain and then waiting until the ship 's cargo was loaded and the weather and omens were right for the voyage . |
| 8 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 9 | Newcastle Bohemians squandered a two-goal lead at home to fellow relegation candidates Cleator Moor Celtic and in the end were grateful for a share of the points . |
| 10 | So although those carers in the action sample were grateful for the help they received from the Home Support Project ( and almost without exception carers throughout the action samples expressed the same sentiment ) , there is scant evidence that it contributed to allaying feelings of strain . |
| 11 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 12 | They managed to keep their lassitude at bay with regular coffee breaks every hour and when lunch arrived unexpectedly just after midday , courtesy of Brummer , they were grateful for the nourishment and the respite . |
| 13 | Both sides have struggled in the league this year and Haslemere were grateful for the time and space they were allowed in this match . |
| 14 | Thus , when Josias Nichols asked the parishioners of one parish in Kent ‘ whether it were possible for a man to live so uprightly that by well doing he might win heaven ’ , virtually all of them thought that this was so . |
| 15 | It was not clear whether by this time children were possible for the couple ; it was not apparent that the author knew much about that kind of thing . |
| 16 | ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want . |
| 17 | Lorry drivers in a transport cafe enjoying their breakfast were marooned for a time and really the best form of transport was by canoe . |
| 18 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 19 | Liverpool was taking a beating , and rumours were free for the asking on every street corner and in every food queue . |
| 20 | I kept them clean and well-dressed , made sure they ate the right things , had regular dental checks and all that , but some of my methods were unorthodox for the time . |
| 21 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 22 | The NLA , which held its first session on March 29 , came under attack from various politicians who claimed that its members were unqualified for the task of drawing up a new constitution . |
| 23 | Moreover , in their anxiety to forge an alliance with the bourgeoisie and their blindness to the revolutionary potential of the peasantry , they were willing for the proletariat to accept a position of subordination to liberal bourgeois leadership . |
| 24 | A close friend who was gay — we were never quite lovers but we were inseparable for a while — went off with a woman and I was incredibly devastated by this . |
| 25 | In Chapter 3 the focus will be directed instead on those contacts between the guberniia centres of Saratov and Samara and Moscow which were crucial for the alleviation of the famine conditions . |
| 26 | In particular , although the numbers of cases and the prevalence of exposures in the highest dose categories considered by Gardner et al were similar for the control fathers in the two studies , the Ontario study found no evidence of a risk associated with such doses . |
| 27 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 28 | Over the next few weeks , players here and those that were unavailable for the tour will be asked about their availability , but already most of the touring squad have expressed their determination to go to Kenya , even if it means giving up their jobs to do so . |
| 29 | She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed . |
| 30 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |