Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [was/were] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 No further information on institution to be attended was available for the remaining three students .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 When at last he spoke , his voice was tight , fully realising that the respirators they were wearing were inadequate for most nerve gases .
5 They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility .
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