Example sentences of "one [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 2 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 3 | It could be argued that the proposed phonemes and ( if one were arguing for the one-phoneme analysis ) have distributions similar to other consonants , while other combinations of plosive plus fricative do not . |
| 4 | But that was in 1976 , a black year for British sprinting when no one was selected for the 100 metres at the Montreal Olympics . |
| 5 | Investigators concluded that no one was to blame for the blaze started by a spotlight overheating a curtain . |
| 6 | The official report says no one was to blame for the fire , which started after a halogen lamp overheated near a curtain . |
| 7 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |