Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traffic behind and on the opposite carriageway was stopped ready for the police to take control . |
| 2 | The Bretton Woods arrangements were designated to foster a network of multilateral trade and payments in the world as a whole , since this was deemed desirable for the development of world trade . |
| 3 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 4 | Due to the increased complexity arising from multiple word candidates in the input and the requirement that the system provide a wide coverage of English the use of an ATN-based grammar was considered unsuitable for the current application . |
| 5 | It was a common business procedure to keep a single written copy of a deal until it was considered safe for the venture to be announced publicly . |
| 6 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 7 | By dint of a couple of birdies and a fortunate eagle on the long fourteenth hole , Jack was looking good for a share of the prize money . |
| 8 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 9 | Part of this land was used for council housing but , as North Tyneside CDP ( 1978a ) makes clear , much was made available for the building of private housing . |
| 10 | In Moscow , Red Square was made ready for the triumphalist May Day parade . |
| 11 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | All eight members of the board of the Corporation were appointed by the Governor , and a director was made responsible for the day-today management of the service . |
| 13 | On the line 's completion in 1841 Gooch was made responsible for the construction of branch lines to Heywood , Oldham , Halifax , and Ashton-under-Lyne . |
| 14 | In the following year he was made responsible for the new shrine which Henry III was beginning for Edward the Confessor . |
| 15 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 16 | It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife . |
| 17 | A feud between the Medellín and Cali cartels was thought responsible for the massacre of 22 workers on a ranch near Cali on Sept. 25 . |
| 18 | The priest 's home was usually near the church , it was not until the eighteenth century when services became more infrequent that it was thought proper for the priest to become established in a big house , perhaps on a distant part of the glebe , and live with much of the dignity of a squire . |
| 19 | The incident was thought fit for the purpose , and adopted accordingly . |
| 20 | Obiang Nguema was re-elected unopposed for a further seven-year term as President in June 1989 [ see p. 36727 ] . |
| 21 | Quite involuntarily her body was getting ready for a fight . |
| 22 | In a big terraced house in Dunlaoghaire , another household was getting ready for the opening of the university term . |
| 23 | The truth was that Mauve only wanted to spend time on a large painting of sailing barges which he was getting ready for an exhibition . |
| 24 | After the Restoration , pursuing his erstwhile reversion on Edmund 's behalf , he was pronounced unfit for a tellership , but he kept out of trouble until 1671 , when he was sent to the Tower on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy of Colonel Thomas Blood [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Modifications made , the cannon was pronounced ready for a mission on August 15 to Vitry en Artois . |
| 26 | To give an example , a company was found responsible for a hoist accident at a power station in Kent in 1978 in which four people died and five were seriously injured . |
| 27 | As the days sped past , we knew that the tide was running strong for the coalition and growing stronger . |
| 28 | The Revolutionary Tupac Amarú Movement ( MRTA ) was believed responsible for a car bomb which exploded outside the residence of the US ambassador during the night of Feb. 11-12 , killing three policemen and injuring several other people . |
| 29 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 30 | The mafia was believed responsible for the killing on March 12 of Salvatore Lima , a member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) and an associate of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti . |