Example sentences of "was [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 2 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 3 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 4 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 5 | With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget . |
| 6 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 7 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 8 | In Somerset , for example , it was enough for one local newspaper to warn that Exmoor was a ‘ potential nuclear dump ’ , whilst another pinpointed the Polden Hills north of Bridgwater as the ‘ nuclear graveyard ’ . |
| 9 | as if beating England and supplying half of the World Cup winning side was enough for one year Queensland also won the 22nd Dubai . |
| 10 | The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind . |
| 11 | My bowl of fettucine Alfredo at the Cheescake Factory in Marina del Ray cost $8.95 ( £5 ) and was enough for three . |
| 12 | So New York next for the students … but the Oxford Half Marathon was enough for most . |
| 13 | It was enough for both of them . |
| 14 | It was hard to urge forbearance and sympathy with the father on the son , all the more in face of that bitter resentment that was all for poor Mary Bohun , mother of six young children and dead at twenty-four . |
| 15 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 16 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 18 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 19 | His mother , he knew , was in for another of her bouts , and he would have to bear the brunt of it . |
| 20 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 21 | When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it . |
| 22 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 23 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 24 | He was in for three hours 40 minutes all told , an hour longer than any other West Indian managed , and gave only one chance , a difficult caught and bowled to Meyrick Pringle when 59 . |
| 25 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 26 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 27 | Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes . |
| 28 | I I recall that I in effect directed that an officer should carry a shotgun as opposed to the original officer that er was down for that weapon . |
| 29 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 30 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |