Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was most marked for large bucket sizes ; IBM fourteen-record bucket files gave average retrieval times increased from 40 ms to 55 ms as a result of 40 per cent of the file being stored in overflow . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 3 | In the theatre was a model , indeed a sustained exploration , of the role-playing which was so important for social mobility , the appropriation and successful deployment of power . |
| 4 | Ron was so enthusiastic for young athletes to do well . |
| 5 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |
| 6 | It was especially sweet for Roman Catholic Cardinal Basil Hume . |
| 7 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 8 | But it was utterly disastrous for classical physics . |
| 9 | Important commodities were spices , the control of which was largely responsible for European involvement and exploration leading to the Spanish and Portuguese colonizations and ultimately to the Dutch monopoly of nutmegs and cloves in Indonesia by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The structural change in England and Wales was accompanied by a change in central government organization , whereby the Home Office 's responsibility for children 's services was passed over to the Department of Health and Social Security , which was already responsible for other welfare services . |
| 11 | Both cell types generated platelet activating factor activity and this was generally comparable for epithelial and lamina propria cells . |
| 12 | Every Sunday I took certain Christian services , and I was always available for individual Christian clergy who wanted friendship and advice . |
| 13 | He 'd heard how Jesus was always concerned for poor people and how he always welcomed the chance to correct people like him who were living wrongly . |
| 14 | The problem of the velocity of the earth relative to the aether , which was deeply significant for pre-Einsteinian physicists , was dissolved by Einstein . |
| 15 | The Russian delegation objected that the new approach was more appropriate for developing countries , and called for its newly established Agency for International Co-operation and Development to share authority with the World Bank in co-ordinating aid for Russia . |
| 16 | What was more important for new pop sexuality , then , was the rock-despised ‘ artificial ’ 1970s genre , disco , which , in its very use of formulas , raised questions about the pop construction , via dance , of the body . |
| 17 | This distinguishes the position from that in Expenses where it was more difficult for isolated protesting States to remain aloof from the actions of the Organisation . |
| 18 | Using a positive control group with PBD , as in this study , was also useful for comparative purposes and in the interpretation of morphological changes in the fundectomy group . |
| 19 | It was also useful for decorative purposes , attaching the cells for cloisonné work to their background or securing gold droplets to filigree work . |
| 20 | Hire purchase was also available for new commodities such as bicycles . |
| 21 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 22 | At Gribba Head East , Pete O'Sullivan was in need of a Skin Graft , E2 5c , after climbing the hanging crack on the upper left side of the face and was also responsible for Hysterical Hamsters , E4 6b , at Chairladder , taking the right hand arête of South East Buttress . |
| 23 | The phrase was coined by writer Leon Griffiths , who was also responsible for other Daley gems like ‘ nice little earner , ’ and ‘ the world 's your lobster ’ . |
| 24 | Volunteer labour was also responsible for recent alterations and improvements to the village hall , which is now able to accommodate indoor bowling throughout the winter . |
| 25 | Steve Burn , who designed the rock ‘ n ’ roll memorabilia interior , was also responsible for similar Buzz bars in London and Cardiff . |
| 26 | The year 1980 was also important for other states in the ‘ arc of crisis ’ surrounding the lucrative petroleum province of the Gulf . |
| 27 | The reasoning which led to the discovery of the antimalarial pyrimethamine was applied equally fruitfully 15 years later , to the drug trimethoprim , which was as specific for certain bacteria as pyrimethamine was for malaria parasites . |
| 28 | Almost all the 38 families were what would today be regarded as large , but was fairly normal for working-class families in Edwardian Britain.7 Of the 38 , 11 families had 4 children or less , 21 had between 5 and 7 , and 6 had 8 or over . |
| 29 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 30 | De Klerk told a joint session of the tricameral parliament that the way was now clear for constitutional talks with black leaders to " guarantee participation and representation to all South Africans in a true democracy , with effective protection of minorities " . |