Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] were [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 2 | Kelly and Tomlinson-Keasey ( 1977 ) , Scholes and Fischler ( 1979 ) and Ross , Pergament and Anisfeld ( 1979 ) all showed slight LVF advantage for English words among deaf subjects , but these results did not reach significance ( although they were significant for hearing people as a RVFA ) . |
| 3 | The surface meanwhile was safe and shimmering and funny , and would stay that way until we were ready for change . |
| 4 | The government has been forced into a rapid U-turn over plans to cut social security payments to care home residents if they were absent for six days or more . |
| 5 | However , it is clear that ( 12.31 ) which indicates that the boundary conditions are satisfied for the new solution , if they were satisfied for the seed solution . |
| 6 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 7 | But they were handy when you had them sawed , cos they were quicker for the slate , I said to er splitter they were quicker then to split 'em up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The latter case would indicate that , if it were possible for real observers to pass through the horizon , then most would miss this singularity . |
| 10 | ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want . |
| 11 | And if it were possible for you to decide that one of these options , one to eight , were to suit your regular and usual purposes at these meetings for general discussion then that obviously would be both a saving in erm time and labour and is one of the reasons why one installs computerized equipment so that you do n't er then have to do it all manually as well . |
| 12 | Yes she were having a look at a lamb , seeing if it were alright for the thing and er we decided that they would n't be alright because where her shed thing is , it 's too far away from house . |
| 13 | We all stood staring at the flower as if it were responsible for Ruthven 's death . |
| 14 | Macmillan asked if he were willing for Coggan at York and he said Yes . |
| 15 | Because we were late for the afternoon lessons . |
| 16 | The DSS said they were not paid because they were unavailable for work . |
| 17 | Once unemployed , redundancy payments were the only monies received by half the women interviewed , because they were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 18 | My aunts , of course , thought her life had been tragic , and , because they were sorry for her , curbed their natural tartness and tried to talk about what interested her . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , they were one of the more important points of contact , since they were responsible for determining the political complexion of the House of Commons . |
| 20 | All her previous doubts as to whether they were right for each other , whether she cared for him enough , had been answered by her reaction to Michele Lorenzo . |
| 21 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 22 | They are popular group , and the fiercest lobby in the business : no one asks of widows — as they do of unmarried mothers or the divorced — whether they were responsible for their own plight . |
| 23 | According to Charles Rycroft , Artemidorus required to know at least six facts about a dream before it could be interpreted — " Whether the events depicted in the dream were plausible or bizarre ; whether they were approximately interconnected ; whether they were customary for the dreamer ; what events prior to the dream could have influenced it ; and the dreamer 's name and occupation " . |
| 24 | Many cancers were found in patients who had defaulted the clinic before they were eligible for surveillance returning with new symptoms years later . |
| 25 | Thus , when Josias Nichols asked the parishioners of one parish in Kent ‘ whether it were possible for a man to live so uprightly that by well doing he might win heaven ’ , virtually all of them thought that this was so . |
| 26 | Then Aunt Margaret put the flute sideways to her lips , eagerly , as though she were thirsty for it . |
| 27 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 28 | The mean time since their last visit when they were negative for HIV was 129 days . |
| 29 | In the cohort of homosexual men 27 seroconverted in the study period ; the mean time since their last visit when they were negative for HIV was 165 days . |
| 30 | If Marguerite noticed Jenna 's crimson cheeks she chose to ignore it , but Claudine missed nothing and when they were alone for a moment she turned on Jenna with flashing dark eyes . |