Example sentences of "for [adj] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Healy , 39 overnight , finished unbeaten on 83 as Australia 's 239 for eight was stretched to 303 — a first innings deficit of only 77 . |
| 2 | What you 're looking in any formula say from a carbon compound you would be looking for that was bonded to four different groups , it does n't matter what the groups are , it does n't matter how big , how small they are |
| 3 | In his Autumn Statement in November 1989 the Chancellor of the Exchequer accused local authorities of ‘ massive overspending ’ , and held them responsible for the fact that public expenditure for 1989/90 was expected to be £1 billion higher than originally planned . |
| 4 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |
| 5 | One of the principal reasons for this was considered to be the existence of the defence for men under 24 . |
| 6 | In addition , the President 's Award for 1991 was presented to , Director and General Manager of British Aerospace ( Commercial Aircraft ) Ltd , for innovation . |
| 7 | The Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 was awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi , 46 , the daughter of Burmese independence hero Aung San . |
| 8 | Revenue from gas exports for 1991 was expected to be Fl8,300 million , representing 5 per cent of total state revenue . |
| 9 | A bill containing the national budget for 1992 was presented to the Congress on Sept. 13 . |
| 10 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 11 | The region 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had shown a growth rate of 6 per cent in 1991 but the figure for 1992 was expected to be only 5.7 per cent . |
| 12 | The centre-right government in office since October 1991 presented a revised finance bill on April 24 , after it had emerged that the budget deficit for 1992/93 was expected to be 101,800 million kronor ( representing 6.9 per cent of gross domestic product — GDP ) , well above the 70,800 million kronor expected when the 1992/93 draft budget was presented in January [ see p. 38737 ] . |
| 13 | But the best official estimates for the number of lone-parent families in 1981 suggest that there were in fact some 900 000 such families in Great Britain ( see Haskey , 1986 , who indicates that an estimate of 825 000 lone-parent families for 1978 was given to Parliament in 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Gross sugar production for 1989 was expected to be slightly lower than in the previous year , at 614,220 tonnes compared with 672,087 tonnes . |
| 15 | Inflation for 1990 was estimated to be 100 per cent . |
| 16 | Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) for 1990 was expected to be slightly less than the 9.2 per cent of 1989 . |
| 17 | The total for 1990 was expected to be close to a record EC$100,000,000 . |