Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 2 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 3 | So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening . |
| 4 | ‘ He is not too happy either that I was ready for him when he cracked the whip . |
| 5 | It was nothing that I was responsible for . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You can check with whoever you like but I was totally exonerated of any blame at the time , and I resent you and your family 's implications that I was responsible for Eddie 's death ! |
| 7 | At the time that I was contending for the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church , I made use of another argument , drawing out the implications of patristic thought . |
| 8 | He 'd lied about Tara , lied about Nicola Schreider … assured her she was n't his type then pursued her with consummate skill until his ego was satisfied that she was ripe for seduction … |
| 9 | She spoke sharply , and her niece saw that she was upset for some reason . |
| 10 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 11 | Nor did she like his barely hidden insinuation that she was hard-up for a date . |
| 12 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 13 | And she was n't sure that she was ready for such exposure . |
| 14 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 15 | They think they 're one and the same , and that she was responsible for the attack . |
| 16 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 17 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 18 | Even he had been forced to admit that it was strange for so lovely a young woman to be leading a life devoid of romance . |
| 19 | Mr Laws contended that paragraph 16(2) did limit the doctor 's right to provide treatment by another deputy ; that it was legitimate for the FPC to take into account the doctor 's reasonable needs for time off duty for relaxation and rest , the advantages of continuity of patient care and the paragraph 16 obligation to give personal treatment . |
| 20 | He told me that it was necessary for them to start praying at home every day . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 22 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 23 | It also requires showing that it was necessary for such behaviour and beliefs to have been formerly defined as crimes . |
| 24 | Under this enforced regimen of quiet and rest , he came to understand that it was necessary for him to retire a little from the active life in which he had previously been engaged ; he told William Turner Levy that he would have to learn to concentrate his time and energy upon his real work . |
| 25 | He reiterated his belief that it was necessary for Czechoslovakia " to remain a common state for both nations " and for the " rapid and extensive transformation of our economy " to be continued . |
| 26 | The King afterwards explained his sudden decision in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘ When I realized how serious the situation both political and financial had become , I felt that it was necessary for me to be in close touch with my Prime Minister and of course he could n't come here . ’ |
| 27 | It is a defence to show that it was necessary for the defendant to enter the plaintiff 's land . |
| 28 | The government 's view was that it was necessary for JMB to continue in operation to maintain international confidence in the banking system and in the London gold market . |
| 29 | Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free . |
| 30 | He wrote : ‘ The gods seem to have possessed my soul and turned it inside out … so that it was impossible for me to stay idle at home . ’ |