Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What of those who could not work , and were ineligible for pensions ; or , as more often recently , whose pensions were insufficient ? |
| 2 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 4 | Among the two patients with T3N1 tumours without endoscopic recurrence , metastases appeared in one and were responsible for death 10 months later but in the second the tumour diminished ( T0N1 ) after chemotherapy and has remained unchanged with successive endoscopic ultrasound examinations . |
| 5 | They fattened up quickly and were ready for re-sale at Norwich within three months . |
| 6 | Blundell was in southern France testing with McLaren yesterday and was unavailable for comment . |
| 7 | Sefton 's Chief Tourism Officer Phil King is attending a conference in Scarborough and was unavailable for comment . |
| 8 | The company believed trading volume sales got customer loyalty and was good for business . |
| 9 | Basil Peacock recalls him having a specially made iron club which fixed into his partial right arm , and was adjustable for loft by manipulation between his feet . |
| 10 | The incidence of anal cancer remained fairly constant in the period 1943–57 and was similar for men and women , but it increased 1.5-fold among men and nearly tripled among women thereafter . |
| 11 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 12 | Throughout this time , however , he was still active in religious publishing , and was responsible for Leslie Weatherhead 's Psychology , Religion and Healing . |
| 13 | Macey became managing director in 1990 and was responsible for Parfums Christian Dior and sister company Parfums Christian Lacroix UK . |
| 14 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 15 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 16 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 17 | She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies . |
| 18 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |