Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 2 | It was perhaps as well I could n't find the author — During stage four there was vibration from the front wheels and the drive-shafts were due for replacement . |
| 3 | When the track and the signals at the ageing junction were due for renewal , British Rail had chosen the cheapest option to enable InterCity trains to travel faster at the expense of local services , the inquiry into the 1991 disaster which killed four people and injured 22 , was told . |
| 4 | The controversy received a new lease of life in March 1983 when the Irish Farmers Monthly published a confidential , internal IBM report and claimed that up to 2,000 acres of agricultural land near the mine were so badly contaminated with lead , zinc and arsenic that they were unsuitable for agriculture . |
| 5 | Thirty two patients volunteered for the study , of whom eight were unsuitable for study ( because of untreated hypothyroidism , erratic diet and exercise , depression , a renal transplant , taking anticoagulants , taking benzodiazepines ( two ) , insufficient time ) . |
| 6 | They sell 100,000 shirts a year but , unfortunately , the two examples sent to the Echo were unsuitable for use in a family newspaper . |
| 7 | Low pitched Byzantine roofs and hemispherical domes were unsuitable for snow and rain so the people of Novgorod developed roofs of steeper pitch with onion domes . |
| 8 | and because the clinics were not attached to the main hospitals , there was no feedback from other disciplines in medicine , and , furthermore , the doctors working in the clinics did not have to undergo the vigorous selection procedures that were usual for hospital posts . |
| 9 | The latter rumpus , still going on , emphasises Newport 's plight : they were grateful for players from Welsh rugby 's traditional whipping boys . |
| 10 | Both were deficient for vitamin B 1 2 . |
| 11 | The correct volume for question one was 0.31026m3 , and yes three different volumes were possible for question two , though the answer , 0.34047m3 stands for question three . |
| 12 | If it were possible for Jessie to go and live in Durham , it was also possible that at times she could meet Robbie Felton , and then perhaps they could get married and go off somewhere . |
| 13 | The Baldwin family were strong for protection , which commended them to Chamberlain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We were crap for ages , ’ confesses Lucy , ‘ but we hung on in there , gradually improved and started pestering people for support slots . ’ |
| 16 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the problem with the Desktop Division , according to Engels , is that its targets were unrealistic for products that have not yet achieved critical mass . |
| 18 | Grapefruit diets were popular for years . |
| 19 | Macmillan asked if he were willing for Coggan at York and he said Yes . |
| 20 | But hundreds of residents signed a protest petition stating buses were crucial for people living in the Albert Hill area . |
| 21 | In the early decades age adjusted incidence rates were similar for men and women ( 0.20–0.25 per 100000 person years ) . |
| 22 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 23 | The DSS said they were not paid because they were unavailable for work . |
| 24 | Many necessary data sets were unavailable for reasons of administrative inadequacies , confidentiality constraints , cost or non-collection in certain countries ; |
| 25 | BBCE representatives were unavailable for comment . |
| 26 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 27 | Today the owners of the horse were unavailable for comment but their solicitor said that while they accepted the horse broke loose they do not accept liability and are disputing any claim the horse caused the boys ' injuries . |
| 28 | Gary Corbett and Geoff Lloyd , the directors of non-league Altrincham who were hoping to buy Chester , were unavailable for comment on the latest developments last night . |
| 29 | The Labour Party gained substantially on this occasion from the ‘ first past the post ’ electoral system and from the unequal size of the constituencies , whose boundaries were overdue for redistribution . |
| 30 | Intraepithelial lymphocytes were immunonegative for class II major histocompatibility complex , while epithelial cells showed increased expression of this product in coeliac disease . |