Example sentences of "was [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time . |
| 2 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 3 | Of course I was due for a humiliation . |
| 4 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 5 | ‘ Darlington was due for a win , the feeling was right in the town , and I told them so , ’ said Mr McLean . |
| 6 | Mr Burn said Perry 's was due for a design rethink which would ‘ make the two venues most young people 's first choice for a night out ’ . |
| 7 | A jobless actor was annoying an off-duty bouncer , announcing loudly that he was due for a break . |
| 8 | Nor did she like his barely hidden insinuation that she was hard-up for a date . |
| 9 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 10 | Both Tony and I felt the time was right for a change . ’ |
| 11 | After owning the Messenger for about five years , during which the Walton family used it to tour all over Europe , Lindsey felt the time was right for a change . |
| 12 | Number 133 , women 's clothes and hosiery from Paris , with garments displayed in the window that Charlie did n't consider it was right for a man to be looking at . |
| 13 | She was tall for a woman , but he topped her by several inches , forcing her to look up at him . |
| 14 | That was each for a week was n't it ? |
| 15 | Paine , Bentham , and to a lesser degree James Mill , shared in the optimistic mood of the decades after 1789 , when it was possible for a radical like William Hazlitt to affirm , without qualification or self-consciousness , that " Vox populi vox Dei , is the rule of all good Government … " . |
| 16 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 17 | Now it was possible for a settlor who conveyed land to A to direct him to hold to the use of B ; and then to direct that , on the happening of an event , e.g. B 's marriage , B's use should shift to C. This use in favour of C was a shifting use . |
| 18 | It was possible for a man to achieve social promotion in the Church : if a few bishops were sons and brothers of kings or great lords , many more owed their position to talent and service , not to birth . |
| 19 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 20 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 21 | It was possible for a person to be given a legacy on the understanding that he would manumit a slave . |
| 22 | In his reply the Commons Leader said that he was now advised it was possible for a marriage to take place in the crypt chapel if the Archbishop of Canterbury provides a licence . |
| 23 | Ramsey realized that it was possible for a mind to inhabit a partly unreal world . |
| 24 | So in the 60s , when serious money came to Ireland as a result of determined government policy to encourage foreign investment in the country , it was possible for a nationalist to become involved in tearing the heart out of Dublin while extolling the virtues of Irish freedom . |
| 25 | If she was depressed for a time , he blamed it on the illness she had had , and was sympathetic . |
| 26 | She leaned back in her chair whistling softly under her breath , then remembered that it was vulgar for a woman to whistle . |
| 27 | Mr Crangle was almost thrown into the sea with them and the Headmaster had shouted at him so loudly he was deaf for a week . |
| 28 | ‘ I was upset for a while , but I do n't seem to care any more . |
| 29 | Tom was speechless for a moment . |
| 30 | Peggy was speechless for a moment . |