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of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 .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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But most Roman varieties were unsuitable for the British climate and the Norman varieties rapidly took precedence . |
| 6 | Two minutes later Pompey were grateful for a magnificent save when Knight denied Luca Pazzaglia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus , eight versions were possible for a given material . |
| 9 | Both those statements were momentous for the Royal Family but the historical impact of Charles and Diana 's separation is likely to be greater . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her interests in the paranormal were unorthodox for a Communist but not unusual among the post-religious élite in Brezhnev-s Europe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Champagne itself , in exceptionally hot vintages like 1947 , 1959 and 1976 , the sugar-acid ratios were inappropriate for the fine balance of Champagne . |
| 21 | About 30 close friends and family were present for the 40-minute service at Putney Vale Crematorium , south-west London . |
| 22 | We were married for the formative period . |
| 23 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 24 | At this time ideological and economic conditions were unpropitious for a sizable audience for postmodernist culture . |
| 25 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , we might note that these services were responsible for a major portion of expenditure of the Metropolitan Authorities and the rises in expenditure incurred through policy of central Government were used as one of the rationales for dismantling these Authorities . |
| 27 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 28 | Last week , they were responsible for A Wanted Man ( BBC 2 ) , a powerful trilogy of plays by Malcom McKay about the police interrogation , trial and attempted rehabiliation of a murderer . |
| 29 | By the late nineteenth century , peasant farmers were responsible for the great bulk of farm produce , whether on allotment land belonging to the commune or on private land bought or rented from the nobility . |
| 30 | It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century . |