Example sentences of "was [det] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , apart from a few family friends , there was little support for such views . |
| 2 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 3 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 4 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 5 | Let's put it this way : because of the occasional lightning strike and buckets of water from the celestial quarter there was little opportunity for sevens hookers to ply their ancient trade . |
| 6 | When , as in Scotland , little was asked , there was little need for strenuous efforts to direct and control local affairs from the centre , little to arouse opposition . |
| 7 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |
| 8 | On cine-film at 200 frames per second there was little tolerance for imprecise recording , hence the need to get the angles and focus exact before the commencement of play . |
| 9 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 10 | It seems likely that the party had done so well then that there was little room for further advance , rather than that its performance in 1990 was especially poor . |
| 11 | There was little room for popular participation except through the ballot box , and the public was given no real right to press demands onto governments or parties . |
| 12 | There was another possibility for this L-shaped trail : rather than showing the death of a new mesotron it might instead show a known muon that somehow had been captured by the matter around it , extracted energy from it and then shot off again : this was the suggestion that Blackett had made , and Charles Frank began to think about it . |
| 13 | And was this testing for possible underground fuel tanks ? |
| 14 | There was some authority for this but the matter is now governed by section 11(1) of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which firmly states that contributory negligence is no defence in proceedings founded on conversion , or on intentional trespass to goods . |
| 15 | It was not thought that there was much demand for corporal punishment . |
| 16 | We did n't think there was enough room for another member of the family , so I trained as a chartered accountant . ’ |
| 17 | That was enough politics for one edition ; he would now revert to being its ‘ roving ’ correspondent . |
| 18 | Officials in San'aa denied that there was any basis for these reports , which were , however , used in Western press reports to suggest that unification had been brought forward to pre-empt the development of any serious opposition of this kind . |
| 19 | Therefore , one can not claim that there was any potential for real dependence , although Leapor might easily have exchanged flattery for profit in the circumstances . |
| 20 | The third aim of the project was to consider needs that are being , or could be , met from external/co-operative sources , and Chapter 5 examines the topics that libraries indicated as those for which there was most need for external training provision . |