Example sentences of "were [verb] for [art] short [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 2 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 3 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 4 | After lectures from two British Airways pilots and a clinical psychologist , 80 people were taken for a short flight . |
| 5 | But unbundlers did , for they were borrowing for a short haul before assets could be sold : in that time , they assumed their guesses about cash flow would be pretty safe and that asset prices would carry on rising . |