Example sentences of "[pers pn] was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 2 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 3 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 4 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 5 | Or maybe you can say that Mellor wanted to be the captain , but she was for sure the admiral . |
| 6 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 7 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 8 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 9 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 11 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 12 | Then it was for real , and each of the surveyors were totally in control and flying solo through a flight , two landings and a take off ! |
| 13 | " Mr Herriot , " he said as the smoke rose around his ears , " do you ever feel when sammat happens that it was meant to happen and that it was for t'best ? " |
| 14 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was for richer or poorer and I 'd be happy to live in a cardboard box if it was with my husband . |
| 16 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 17 | The response in this area was far more positive than it was for simple strumming . |
| 18 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |
| 19 | I went to the agents and it was for two thousand Pounds . |
| 20 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 21 | ninety eight , I think it was for two dozen , what happen we did n't have much choice you could n't get the two dozen boxes |
| 22 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |
| 23 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 24 | It was for such reason that most of Petipa 's famous pas de deux take place centre stage , whilst those of Ashton and MacMillan cover the whole area as befits their more flowing lyrical styles , |
| 25 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 26 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 27 | He thought he could remember that he and Peter had fastened their rope to a spur or spike of rock and accordingly it was for such a feature that he searched . |
| 28 | No , it meant you were there but it was for other people to do something about it — if anything had to be done . |
| 29 | It was for injured hedgehogs he and his wife Sue originally set up their wildlife hospital , St. Tiggywinkles — and now he 's made a video with all you need to know about taking care of the hedgehog which despite their reputation , he says performed beautifully : |
| 30 | Although the auditors ' report was addressed to ‘ the members ’ of Berg , it was for all practical purposes addressed to G alone . |