Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traffic behind and on the opposite carriageway was stopped ready for the police to take control . |
| 2 | I was using regular for about two years after that until I was sent down . |
| 3 | To investigate this possibility , a new , non-invasive test of gastric acid secretion was developed ideal for ield use in the third world , where chronic diarrhoea and undernutrition are common . |
| 4 | One of the oncoming dogs was slightly nearer to him than the other , and was leaping high for his throat . |
| 5 | Tuan Ti Fo persevered , following his mouth with the spoon , coaxing a little of the liquid into him each time , until the child 's mouth was opening wide for each new spoonful . |
| 6 | The train was booked solid for weeks , and there was the Greyhound … ‘ that 's your cheapest option , ’ said our friends in Seattle , ‘ but you might be sitting with child molesters . ’ |
| 7 | Within six weeks of the tickets going on sale last November , advance bookings totalled over £2 million , and the show was booked solid for months to come . |
| 8 | In this context community care was taken to encompass both residential care and care which it was deemed appropriate for local health and social service authorities to provide in non-institutional settings . |
| 9 | The material taken out of the higher point of the site was deemed unsuitable for use at the lower end . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This multifunctional environment was considered suitable for developing a method that would be equally applicable to a wide range of organisations , albeit with totally different business objectives . |
| 13 | The parents did n't know then that a List D school was considered suitable for their son . |
| 14 | Lectio or Reading was considered essential for prayer ( Oratio ) ; it enabled a monk to enter into himself and discover what had to be changed in the light of divine truth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sea , too , was considered good for health and the fashion for sea bathing was originally for health reasons rather than for a jolly seaside holiday . |
| 17 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 18 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 19 | Only the musty Hotel Philadelphia was considered fit for Europeans . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In other cases it seems that some assessment was made , at a high level , of the general condition of a school , so that it was considered inappropriate for project status . |
| 22 | For the next couple of days , the Britannia will be anchored up the coast , where Prince Charles will work on a BBC film about the environment and talk to government radicals with whom it was considered impolitic for him to spend time during his official itinerary . |
| 23 | Title scanning , as mentioned briefly above , was considered adequate for area identification . |
| 24 | A sample was considered positive for H pylori of its optical density was higher than the limit of the normal value , specified by the manufacturer . |
| 25 | A standard curve was constructed , and a sample was considered positive for H pylori if its antibody concentration was greater than 17 units . |
| 26 | Originally a resident of Celtic Crescent , he had found that even with the occupancy of two adjoining houses there it was becoming impossible for him to accommodate his growing family along with the near and distant relations from Dublin and England who availed of his hospitality in a constant procession . |
| 27 | Foreign Affairs Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said in Maputo on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that the time was becoming ripe for direct talks between the two sides and praised the efforts of the mediators . |
| 28 | Xenly was becoming greedy for food . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His colleague , the poet Thomas Gray , six years his senior , was becoming concerned for his reputation in other respects by 1747 when he wrote to his friend Thomas Warton about Smart 's conduct : ‘ His debts daily increase ( you remember the state they were in when you left us ) ’ . |