Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coal-fired power stations were responsible for more than 41 per cent of the electricity in 1987 , with nuclear power second with 22 per cent and gas third at 9 per cent . |
| 2 | He also said that he was convinced that South African agents and others concerned with intelligence gathering were responsible for more than a dozen burglaries at the houses and offices of himself and his professional advisers . |
| 3 | Here too , however , there is impermanence in the city ruling class : while families such as the Fetplaces and Jameses were important for more than one generation , by the early Tudor period new names appear among the ruling oligarchy , Thomas Thomas and his son Sampson , John Dawtry and Richard Palshid . |
| 4 | Child 's grade C and age were the main criteria for exclusion and many patients were ineligible for more than one reason . |
| 5 | It was funny for awhile but the novelty soon wore off . |
| 6 | The mystery was that it was successful for more than thirty years . |
| 7 | It will have been noticed that it was common for more than one child in a family to enter the same trade , and our sample very strikingly demonstrates the importance of sisterhood . |
| 8 | The net change in height centile compared with diagnosis was comparable for surgically and non-surgically treated patients followed up to completion of their growth . |
| 9 | It was rare for more than one married couple to live together in the same house . |