Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GLC and MCCs were responsible for strategic planning , refuse disposal , transport , fire and police ( outside London ) . |
| 2 | Commenting on the possibility of German reunification , Worner said that a debate within the alliance on that issue was a matter of time , and that NATO was ready for eventual reunification if it was the expressed will of the German people . |
| 3 | The firm of Waring & Gillow was responsible for contemporary furniture in many large houses , and supplied the Dolls ' House with typical , practical pieces for staff bedrooms . |
| 4 | Although " this offer has been accepted by Marshal Tito " , it had " subsequently been discovered that these troops had not in fact entered Austria … it was possible to turn them over to Marshal Tito in complete formation , and prevention of infiltration into Austria was essential for operational reasons " . |
| 5 | Being in the Venetian Republic there was much freedom of thought in this university and the medical school in particular under the great anatomist Fabricius was famous for experimental work . |
| 6 | But both she and her husband Tony were unprepared for little Patrick 's hasty entrance . |
| 7 | The Christians in the Roman colony at Corinth were notorious for issuing lawsuits just to resolve bitter disputes between one Christian and another ( cf. 1 Cor. |
| 8 | ‘ Look , in the old days the Mamur Zapt was responsible for bloody everything in the city . |
| 9 | It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority . |
| 10 | It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority . |