Example sentences of "that was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They added experimental departments in agriculture , forestry and social research , and the school that was famous for 50 years in the world of progressive education . |
| 2 | ( 17 ) oh apart from once when we went we found em + an Irish bar ( ) in San Francisco that was famous for its Irish coffees + ( ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He wrote it purely because it was a song that was right for them . |
| 5 | Clark and Howey signed three-year contracts last month and Keegan said : ‘ We sat down with the two lads and their fathers and worked out a deal that was right for them . |
| 6 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Soviet armed forces , in particular , would be provided with everything that was necessary for them to perform their task . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But what if a gene exerted a phenotypic effect that was good for itself but bad for the rest of the genes in the body ? |
| 12 | No smoking , no alcohol , only eating food that was good for you . ’ |
| 13 | Everything that was easy for Victoria seemed hard for her and she never understood why . |
| 14 | As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training . |
| 15 | Oldham had 1 shot on target … that header that was easy for the keeper . |
| 16 | I 've personally had problems with one doctor cos he was out of date , he was n't you know , was n't aware of some of the treatments and I had to actually enlighten him to some of the the treatments that was available for people ! |
| 17 | His attitude to others and towards mixing with them was rooted in an ambiguity that was fertile for his art but disastrous in his dealings with people . |
| 18 | But if if a lot of schools opted out could you imagine that there might be one school that was famed for its computer excellence , and another school famed for its musical excellence , and you might have different specialist kinds of schools , not quite as dramatically delineated as I have suggested , but that would be the balance of interest in these different schools and would that be healthy ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact , if she wanted to hold down her gruelling job in a profession that was notorious for being both fraught with tension and also for the high casualty rate of mental burn-out , she 'd better try and get back to sleep — right now ! |
| 23 | Both were very drunk and attempting to sing a song that was remarkable for the complete absence of any words . |
| 24 | Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence . |
| 25 | But , as her grandfather had drummed into her then , she had no right to inflict pain simply because the other person was telling a truth that was hard for her to cope with . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He saw that it was this very racism that was responsible for forcing blacks into positions of marginality . |
| 30 | 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 . |