Example sentences of "that was [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 2 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 3 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 4 | Moffat 's testimony although , obviously , personal would seem to uncover therefore not only the roots of US policy in Vietnam — a belief in trusteeship , and international organization generally , a distrust of France , a traditional antipathy to colonialism — but also an immanent if unconscious belief in US intervention that was necessary for the ordering of a more perfect world . |
| 5 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 6 | Oldham had 1 shot on target … that header that was easy for the keeper . |
| 7 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 8 | She was , of course , a singer of the highest calibre — producing that wonderfully mellow and rounded sound that was ideal for the music of Mahler and Elgar ( of which she became a justly famous interpreter ) . |
| 9 | Since the railways and the cables alongside them carried most of the nation 's newspapers , letters , and long-distance oral messages , little stimulus could be given towards the social and ethnic unification of a country that was notorious for the gap between town and country living conditions . |
| 10 | Both were very drunk and attempting to sing a song that was remarkable for the complete absence of any words . |
| 11 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |
| 12 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 13 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 14 | With hindsight , it can be appreciated that it was not the Copernican theory that was responsible for the faulty prediction , but one of Brahé 's auxiliary assumptions . |
| 15 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 16 | Perhaps the managerial talent that was responsible for the steady growth is spread too thin . |
| 17 | The fountain-head and settling tank of the aqueduct were also rebuilt ; two fragmentary inscriptions would suggest that the work was carried out by a detachment of Legio XX , possibly the same detachment that was responsible for the granaries . |