Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Mr Major arrived , the denizens of Bolton were hungry for more and the first question went to the heart of the Tory dilemma . |
| 2 | When I was there they were desperate for one and anxious that the sanctions should be lifted . |
| 3 | Later he was sorry for this and taught himself to read hymns and easy accompaniments . |
| 4 | ROGER LINTON , 27 , is manager of Dunbar 's tourist information centre and was unemployed for three and a half months before finding a job . |
| 5 | The Scottish Secretary was responsible for 29 and 1 respectively . |
| 6 | In contrast to the findings of Slobin ( 1966 ) and Herriot ( 1969 ) , they found that the difference in performance with actives and passives was identical for reversible and non-reversible sentences . |
| 7 | Not only were lines built to tap it , not only did almost every station become a distribution centre in all those areas where the fossil fuel was vital for domestic and industrial use , but trains themselves in many countries ran on it . |
| 8 | This was disappointing for all and sundry , except for the Durham players , who achieved records by virtue of their newly-acquired first-class status . |
| 9 | The distribution of the data was Gaussian for normal and inflamed squamous oesophagitis and therefore analysis of variance was used to calculate the significance of intergroup distribution compared with intragroup variation to 95% confidence intervals . |