Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed , with some justice , that local authorities were better able to provide for variable local conditions than remote central authorities . |
| 2 | Parliament imposed excise duties on beer in 1643 to raise money for its army — and the taxes were only supposed to last for the duration of that little upset . |
| 3 | Older children were less inclined to wait for attention than younger children . |
| 4 | Others were less ready to settle for second best . |
| 5 | The lobster salads were temptingly ready save for the cucumber garnish ; kidneys and sauce awaited his last minute cooking ; the quails and cutlets awaited their ovens , the geese were browning nicely , the entremets , the dessert , cheeses , the prepared savouries — Auguste 's practised eye ran over them all in expert fashion . |
| 6 | If the subjects with pneumonia were more likely to return for follow up visits than those without this could have resulted in an overestimation of the incidence of bacterial pneumonia among the drug users who seroconverted . |
| 7 | In general , employers were more likely to provide for their better-paid skilled workers who were less easily replaced than the unskilled labourers . |
| 8 | Part-time workers were more likely to work for an employer who did not offer an occupational pension scheme . |
| 9 | Buzz had read newspaper accounts of old people who had been forcibly removed from their homes and admitted to nursing homes ; such people had been robbed by the very guardians who were legally supposed to care for them . |
| 10 | The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education . |
| 11 | Since changes in blood group antigen expression in the colon are associated with dysplasia and may be useful in screening for the development of colorectal carcinoma , we were particularly interested to look for a similar association between inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in the biliary tree and biliary dysplasia and cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 12 | Would one find controlled authorities rationally closing the hospitals which they had been told were least fit to serve for the future — for instance on the grounds of extreme remoteness to districts served or lack of viability in terms of the relative decline of the resident population — and thus cases of rule book judgements ? |
| 13 | The earlier materials were almost all produced for television broadcast as well as classroom use . |
| 14 | But , from now on , their religion could itself become a source of prestige , and did so , to the dismay of bishops who , like Eusebius himself , were sometimes inclined to look for less worldly motives for conversion to Christianity . |
| 15 | Crookes could not explain satisfactorily what was happening , but Stokes and others involved with the dynamical theory of gases were ultimately able to account for it in terms of collisions and energy . |
| 16 | It was held that this was a contract for sale and the plaintiffs were therefore able to sue for the price . |
| 17 | I do not think that that would have been the attitude of the young men who were very keen to fight for their country and to serve with their compatriots . |
| 18 | We were very glad to arrange for five photographers to make a survey of the village ; its people and occupations — unusual sights and environment |
| 19 | There was a period when the police were very busy looking for you . |
| 20 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 21 | Some practitioners whose practices were too small to qualify for the scheme felt bitter , excluded , and frustrated that their patients were being disadvantaged by a system over which they had no control . |
| 22 | These are people who were too proud to register for compensation , who were shy about meeting delegations from Tokyo and who were diffident about making a political issue over ‘ our little pollution incident ’ . |
| 23 | Food was short ; they had no sugar , and the large denominations of Dutch guilder coin in the Company 's cash box were too valuable to exchange for a basket of minute potatoes or two bottles of milk . |
| 24 | As we saw , democrats like Paine originally put forward representation as a means of adapting the democratic principle to societies , such as the United States , which were too large to allow for personal participation by all their citizens . |
| 25 | Whatever prestige and influence might be gained by being a reserve currency was wholly insufficient to compensate for export profits being lost by overvaluation . |
| 26 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 27 | Colin , a born darts player , was so keen to play for the ‘ Whads ’ that he paid his own signing-on fee ( £56 ) , and has also agreed to wash the team strip every week . |
| 28 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 29 | No there was only two placed for |
| 30 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |