Example sentences of "they were [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The General Assembly was not restricted in its actions to those performed by the League , provided it was satisfied they were necessary for the effective carrying out of its task of supervision . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards . |
| 9 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 10 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 11 | They were responsible for the revolution and their rejection of the authority of Tsar , bourgeoisie and moderate socialists alike , and their sustained assault upon the State and private property , is celebrated as one of the greatest expressions of man 's striving for liberty . |
| 12 | It has questioned how far they were in a position to ‘ smuggle in ’ alien dogmas and indoctrinate the masses , and how far they were responsible for the development of class consciousness among workers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 15 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 16 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 17 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |
| 18 | However , it is clear that ( 12.31 ) which indicates that the boundary conditions are satisfied for the new solution , if they were satisfied for the seed solution . |
| 19 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |
| 20 | According to Charles Rycroft , Artemidorus required to know at least six facts about a dream before it could be interpreted — " Whether the events depicted in the dream were plausible or bizarre ; whether they were approximately interconnected ; whether they were customary for the dreamer ; what events prior to the dream could have influenced it ; and the dreamer 's name and occupation " . |
| 21 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 22 | Note that there is no implication that this ‘ quality check ’ found the modules to be of particularly high quality : merely that they were fit for the purpose intended for the baseline . |
| 23 | They were handy for the Conservative club there |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The bottom line argument against heritage languages was always that they were bad for the children . |
| 26 | — helping to get clients to bed , and seeing that they were safe for the night . |
| 27 | He brought an action against the chairman and secretary of the club , as officers of the club , claiming that they were liable for the injuries he had sustained by reason of the condition of the club 's premises . |