Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of this new drive , Marshall introduced business centres — that is , profit centres — on the matrix , the managers of which were accountable for commercial success . |
| 2 | This technique has been used to find the amounts of elements such as iron , sodium , potassium , aluminium , calcium , magnesium , lithium and phosphorus in the flint , and it was the concentrations of these elements which were different for different mines . |
| 3 | The World Bank , which was keen for other cities to follow Singapore 's example , reported a 44 per cent fall in traffic entering central Singapore between 7.30am and 10.15am . |
| 4 | Indeed , another type of initiative which was eligible for three-year education support grant from 1990–91 was projects enabling teachers to play a more active role in relation to non-attendance . |
| 5 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 6 | The State Security Committee ( KGB ) , which was responsible for Soviet border defences , rushed border guard reinforcements to the Azerbaijan-Iran border on Jan. 3 amid reports that attacks on border installations had spread and now threatened the entire 800 km frontier . |
| 7 | The policeman , seeing the expiry date on the cartons of tinned milk , promptly issued a summons against the Jordanian manager for selling milk which was unfit for human consumption . |
| 8 | In 1959 the BDDA returned to Edinburgh for a successful Congress , which was notable for memorable weather , the election of Dr E S Greenaway , Headmaster of the Yorkshire School for the Deaf , as President in succession to the late Sir Richard Paget , and an address by Mrs Molly Sheavyn ( nee Miss Molly Sifton ) on Why 1 changed my Mind . |
| 9 | If somebody was bowsey for bandy legs ? |
| 10 | ‘ I had £4m worth of strikers training who were unavailable for various reasons on Saturday , so that is a lift and Ian Snodin scored for the A team . |
| 11 | The third group consisted of 84 patients without signs or symptoms of cerebral toxoplasmosis who were negative for toxoplasma-specific antibody production . |
| 12 | Violence was entirely foreign to the nation and its people who were renowned for fair play , sang froid and the stiff upper lip . |
| 13 | This is evident from the series of Northamptonshire militia lists dating between 1762 and 1786 which record the occupations of men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for military service . |
| 14 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 15 | whether , at the date of termination , you were eligible for various rights , for instance in view of your age or location overseas . |
| 16 | ‘ Having run out of excuses for the abject failure of your Government 's economic policies , ’ he said , ‘ you are now trying to pin the blame on your predecessor , in whose Government you were responsible for economic policy . ’ |
| 17 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 18 | The list had been drawn up and presented to Cristiani by the independent Truth Commission , with responsibility under the peace agreement for ascertaining who was responsible for human rights violations during the civil war ( 1980-1991 ) . |
| 19 | The UN 's slow reaction was highlighted in the journal , Africa Confidential , which reported in August that the newly appointed UN Development Programme Emergency Representative ( who was responsible for leading emergency co-ordination ) was delayed in Kenya for three months by bureaucratic problems . |
| 20 | The communiqué noted the main problems of the period as follows : " Ideological and political education was neglected , we were over-anxious for quick results in economic development , overheated economy and inflation were caused , the national economy was over-decentralized in some aspects , and the state 's overall regulation and control ability was weakened . " |
| 21 | Most had ‘ No Photocopying ’ notices attached , and one was unavailable for inter-library loan . |
| 22 | One was responsible for industrial relations and union negotiations . |
| 23 | Also numerous parcels now belonged to the great religious foundations of the region as a result of pious donations ; if many of these were tenanted in conjunction with other , larger holdings , they were unavailable for small men , while there were not enough of the big farmers , who did occupy them , to employ more than a very limited number of servants . |
| 24 | They were desperate for solid information rather than rumour , and a few made veiled threats to scale down their coverage of another case for which the Yard was desperate for publicity unless there was a press conference . |
| 25 | They were unusual for social science research : attempts at controlled experiments in selected communities of different kinds in different parts of America . |
| 26 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 27 | As long as Gloucester was the loyal servant of the crown , what was good for him was good for royal authority , and Edward 's acceptance of that fact enormously strengthened the duke 's hand . |
| 28 | As long as Gloucester was the loyal servant of the crown , what was good for him was good for royal authority , and Edward 's acceptance of that fact enormously strengthened the duke 's hand . |
| 29 | At the elementary level of existence , many of them were desperate for basic necessities . |
| 30 | It was opposed by the renascent claims of the Provincial Juntas as direct representatives of the sovereign people ; by conservatives and malcontent grandees who hoped to put an end to Junta government altogether ; by the emergent power of the generals whose incipient Caesarism was represented by Palafox and Cuesta , both of whom were intriguing for political power . |