Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was most marked for large bucket sizes ; IBM fourteen-record bucket files gave average retrieval times increased from 40 ms to 55 ms as a result of 40 per cent of the file being stored in overflow . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 3 | In the theatre was a model , indeed a sustained exploration , of the role-playing which was so important for social mobility , the appropriation and successful deployment of power . |
| 4 | Ron was so enthusiastic for young athletes to do well . |
| 5 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |
| 6 | It was especially sweet for Roman Catholic Cardinal Basil Hume . |
| 7 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 8 | But it was utterly disastrous for classical physics . |
| 9 | Important commodities were spices , the control of which was largely responsible for European involvement and exploration leading to the Spanish and Portuguese colonizations and ultimately to the Dutch monopoly of nutmegs and cloves in Indonesia by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The structural change in England and Wales was accompanied by a change in central government organization , whereby the Home Office 's responsibility for children 's services was passed over to the Department of Health and Social Security , which was already responsible for other welfare services . |
| 11 | Moreover , the workings of the partly suspended sentence were complex and difficult to explain to those who had been convicted ; the sentence was not available for young offenders under the age of twenty-one ; and there were confusing anomalies with parole entitlement . |
| 12 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
| 13 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 14 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
| 15 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 16 | It was not uncommon for foreign representatives in Sweden to be given a quantity of copper , the only Swedish product for which there was a ready international market , which they could sell on their return home . |
| 17 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 18 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 19 | [ The Board went on to hold that the contract was not voidable for economic duress — see below , pp. 237 , 64 ( 652 and Atiyah ( 1982 ) 98 L.Q.R. 197 and ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 353 and Tiplady ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 188 . ] |
| 20 | An original toilet did exist at Stanley Racing which was not suitable for disabled people . |
| 21 | It looked as though the donnish youth would go straight back to donnery and be a don for the rest of his life ; perhaps he was not suitable for other kinds of clergyman . |
| 22 | With 29 metres between east and west window elevations , the building was not ideal for open-plan studios . |
| 23 | He was not ambitious for British rank . |
| 24 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 25 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 26 | The latter were sometimes answered by editorial comments to the effect that the country was not ready for African self-government . |
| 27 | Poor response was more likely to be associated with a low TmP ; good response with the presence of bone metastases , but the reverse was not true for poor response . |
| 28 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 29 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
| 30 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |