Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bogie cars were unsuitable for this arrangement and the small boxes were hung from the top edge of the dash either side . |
| 2 | County 's home form is one of the best in the country so Portsmouth were grateful for this deflection which disturbed Steve Cherry 's equilibrium . |
| 3 | Technical and professional employees , senior staff and certain other employees with key skills ( such as data control staff with operating languages , job controllers and printed circuit board layout draftsmen ) were eligible for this relocation assistance , although the allowances package was dependent on the condition that the distance between the employee 's old home and Stevenage represented an increase of at least 15 miles compared with their old home to work journey . |
| 4 | Three oligonucleotides ( Figure 1 ) and single stranded M13mp18 DNA were necessary for this method , synthesized by a Pharmacia LKB Gene Assembler Plus ( Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology AB , Uppsala , Sweden ) and purified by separation on a 1.5 ml NAP TM -10 column ( Pharmacia LKB ) . |
| 5 | They were true for this woman , but more important than that they 're true for you and they 're true for me today . |
| 6 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 7 | Conservative in aim , it was natural for this legislation to emphasise an obsolescent , legalistic definition , and evade contemporary reality . |
| 8 | In front of him were two other cars , which was unusual for this road . |
| 9 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 10 | ‘ Two years ago the Government ruled that a budget of £22.3m was reasonable for this council , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Bottlang was invaluable for this piece of navigation , particularly as we were starting to feel that the TPC map left something to be desired . |
| 12 | Most likely the introduction of a cult of worship of the ruler was responsible for this development , which is reflected in small objects as in large statues . |
| 13 | It is also to be found in the special character of the theory of language which more than any other was responsible for this development , that of the Swiss philologist and professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857–1913 ) . |
| 14 | It is at least possible that he did not know otherwise and that his father was responsible for this fiction , assuring his son that he truly was the child of British parents , though American-born . |
| 15 | We conclude that heterogeneous chemistry on background aerosols was responsible for this conversion , which brought with it the potential for additional ozone loss in the autumn . |
| 16 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 17 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 18 | The focus was on the child as listener , since a classificatory scheme was available for this purpose — the system of clarification requests developed by Garvey ( 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The sensitive detonator needed to be crimped onto the end of the safety fuze , and a tool was available for this purpose — a pair of pliers would serve well enough . |
| 20 | Air striking power was essential for this purpose . |
| 21 | But under the revised membership clause of the constitution the Rev W. B. Sleight , who was not a missioner , was eligible for this honour and it was he , who , " in accordance with the general feeling " , was elected the first President of the BDDA . |
| 22 | An unblinded design was necessary for this study , since artemether is commercially available only as an intramuscular injection , but intravenous quinine remains the treatment of choice for cerebral malaria in children . |
| 23 | While such victim and self-report surveys are not new what was new for this country was the scope of this survey . |
| 24 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |