Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't think they pissed off home because they were suddenly hungry for Belgian waffles . |
| 2 | The results of the simultaneous state and local elections in the neighbouring state of Hidalgo were not due for official release until Dec. 2 , but preliminary results indicated that the PRI had won 81 out of the 84 municipalities . |
| 3 | Should a warning have been included that they were not suitable for indoor use ? |
| 4 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 5 | They were not eligible for free hospital treatment for any other purpose — an evasion of the problem that fifteen million insured people , if actually treated for all their needs , would have overwhelmed the hotch-potch of voluntary and Poor Law hospitals . |
| 6 | People wanted to be rid of neo-Stalinist regimes , they argued , but were not eager for cut-throat capitalism . |
| 7 | He suggested that accountants were not liable for casual remarks in the course of conversation , statements made by accountants outside their work or for statements not made in their capacity as accountants . |
| 8 | They were largely responsible for overseas trade , and the towns provided centres for the regional economy of their own part of the country . |
| 9 | At the end of the fourth year , pupils moved to the Upper School — provided out of the building programme , and having associated with it certain specific areas ( science and mathematics , for example , or modern languages ) , which were also available for planned uses by some of the pupils in the Halls . |
| 10 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 11 | Contributors were also eligible for free treatment in TB sanatoria — TB being a major cause of ill-health and death among adults . |
| 12 | Field studies were also important for early efforts to monitor the environment , an area with which governments were increasingly concerned . |
| 13 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 14 | District nurses were solely responsible for current treatment in the majority of cases |
| 15 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 16 | Mahathir denounced industrialized nations for criticizing logging in southern states , when it was they who were mainly responsible for global warming . |
| 17 | His mother had believed that forty-watt bulbs were perfectly adequate for overhead lights . |
| 18 | If only it were as simple for military plutonium . |
| 19 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 20 | These offices were used by secular clergy and were particularly appropriate for lay use since they remained constant throughout the liturgical year and were not subject to the complex variations of the main office . |
| 21 | Rosin and Glatt ( 1971 ) differentiated between primary factors which caused chronic , long-term alcohol abuse , chiefly pathological personality characteristics such as neuroticism , and what they called reactive factors which were particularly relevant for late-onset drinkers . |
| 22 | Most Victorian churches had disappeared — upkeep could not be justified as they were quite unsuitable for individual meditation . |
| 23 | The implications of such a view were potentially disastrous for positivist criminology . |
| 24 | Until the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 married women were either ineligible for full unemployment benefit or , by opting for reduced National Insurance contributions , were excluded altogether . |
| 25 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |
| 26 | Its 55-seat SR.N6s , built in the mid-1960s , were too noisy for modern ears . |
| 27 | The interaction of intense laser light with certain gases can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation , but the windows needed to keep the gas contained would absorb it , some ingenious ways were devised to amid windows , but they generally were too cumbersome for practical use . |
| 28 | Strings of pack-animals ( up to thirty per string ) carried bulky loads when the distances involved were too great for cumbersome carts , or the job too urgent for river transport . |
| 29 | Even at this early stage of motor car development the LNW built special vans to convey its rival ; the carrying trucks designed for horse-drawn vehicles were too small for modern cars . |
| 30 | Even when the forms of such things as halberds or hoe-blades were rendered in jade they were too delicate for functional use . |