Example sentences of "[verb] were [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 2 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 3 | A survey by the Spastics Society during the 1987 general election found that half the polling stations surveyed were inaccessible for people with disabilities . |
| 4 | The odds were always against Oxford at Villa Park … trailing by a goal from the first leg United were desperate for a flying start … they were nearly grounded in the opening minutes by Dean Saunders … |
| 5 | Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan . |
| 6 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 7 | The kind of company pensions then being offered were fine for those who joined a company in their twenties and worked through to the age of sixty-five . |
| 8 | When at last he spoke , his voice was tight , fully realising that the respirators they were wearing were inadequate for most nerve gases . |
| 9 | Most of the firms affected were open for business on Monday morning ; all had moved into temporary accommodation by mid-week . |
| 10 | Freeholders who were disappointed in their expectation of aid from the political interest which they had supported were ripe for an attack by another interest , and some of the freeholders in this situation did not scruple to state their position quite bluntly . |
| 11 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 12 | These therefore were the formations which it had been ruled were eligible for repatriation , and these correspond directly to the four remaining groups of the original six the " Ataman Group " referring to Domanov 's Cossacks , which included two Atamans , Domanov and Krasnov ; von Pannwitz 's 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps ; the " Res Units of Lt Gen Shkuro " , meaning Shkuro 's Cossack Training Unit ; and the " Caucasians , incl Mussulmen " , including Georgian and other Christians and Moslems from Azerbaidjan . |
| 13 | Additionally , a presumptive positive result was recorded for any sample if three out of four of the sections examined were positive for the IS 6110 polymerase chain reaction . |
| 14 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 15 | The proposals that emerged were different for London , the rest of England , Wales and Scotland : to say nothing of the difficult position which developed in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | He had an impressive set of movements which he said were excellent for dealing with charging horsemen . |
| 17 | Both patients described were heterozygous for the missense mutation at codon 200 of the prion protein gene . |