Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But most Roman varieties were unsuitable for the British climate and the Norman varieties rapidly took precedence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both those statements were momentous for the Royal Family but the historical impact of Charles and Diana 's separation is likely to be greater . |
| 6 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Today , classrooms were empty for the second day running . |
| 9 | The adrenaline responses ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) were similar for the two insulins ( area under the curve 138 ( 25 ) nmol/l/ 240 min ( human ) v 138 ( 21 ) nmol/l/240 min ( porcine ) ; 95% confidence interval -51 to 51 ; p=0.9 ) . |
| 10 | Median ( range ) symptom scores at the lowest glucose concentration were similar for the two insulins ( total score : human 8 ( 0–21 ) v porcine 6 ( 0–31 ) ( 95% confidence interval -4 to 3 , Z =0.54 , p=0.59 ) ; autonomic score : 3 ( 0–9 ) v 3 ( 0–10 ) , ( -2 to 2 , Z =-0.25 , p=0.79 ) ; and neuroglycopenic score : 2 ( 0–16 ) v 5 ( 0–21 ) , ( -3.5 to 2 , Z =-0.47 , p=0.63 ) ) . |
| 11 | The results and significance were similar for the earlier series although more pronounced ( Table III ) . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you staring at , Squib ? ’ he said , almost angrily , conscious that his cheeks were warm for the third time that afternoon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Champagne itself , in exceptionally hot vintages like 1947 , 1959 and 1976 , the sugar-acid ratios were inappropriate for the fine balance of Champagne . |
| 17 | In 1933 the Nazis increased their number of seats on the Volkstag to 38 , and were present for the first time in sufficient numbers to have an effect on the business and workings of the chamber . |
| 18 | About 30 close friends and family were present for the 40-minute service at Putney Vale Crematorium , south-west London . |
| 19 | We were married for the formative period . |
| 20 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 21 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century . |
| 24 | This phenomenon has been reproduced in a rat model of ethanol feeding and subsequent lipid analyses indicated that accumulated cholesteryl esters were responsible for the morphologic changes observed . |
| 25 | Genetic changes in both host and parasite were responsible for the evolved differences in virulence . |
| 26 | Local studies have established a direct connection between rising prices and annual illegitimacy ratios , suggesting that frustrated wedding plans rather than promiscuity were responsible for the increased number of bastards . |
| 27 | Some of the earliest English churches , minsters containing communities of secular ( i.e. non-monastic ) priests , were responsible for the spiritual welfare of a sizeable surrounding area , perhaps sometimes as large as fifteen modern parishes . |
| 28 | At grouping in 1923 , the smaller railway companies , who in many cases were responsible for the rural railway feeders , were bought out , and often their lines were closed and lifted . |
| 29 | This evidence suggests that social rather than biological mechanisms were responsible for the traditional status of blacks in the USA . |
| 30 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |