Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 2 | The National Dairy Council was reprimanded for an advertisement headlined : ‘ Worried about Osteoporosis ? |
| 3 | Secondly , dialysis bags with the two test fluids were suspended for an hour in a solution of composition similar to cholera stool . |
| 4 | Mr Bragge was applying for an injunction on behalf of French champagne producers Taittinger and the champagne growers ' association , to prevent Mr Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , 39 , selling their product in bottles labelled ‘ champagne ’ . |
| 5 | MODERATE supporters of President Rafsanjani were heading for an overwhelming victory over Iranian hardliners last night , according to the latest tally of returns from parliamentary elections held on Friday . |
| 6 | In the year ending 30 September 1972 planning permissions were given for an estimated 76,000 such dwellings , but only 52,000 were started . |
| 7 | Melanie Ling was nominated for an award ‘ for the outstanding commitment she has shown since being given the task of setting up and supervising a unit to handle the recently acquired Grand Metropolitan Scheme ’ . |
| 8 | If the crowd in Woodford Square on that June evening were looking for an anti- imperialist martyr , that is what they got . |
| 9 | On the strength of the first two parts Lear was recommended for an Associateship of the Linnean Society on 2 November 1830 by Vigors , Thomas Bell , and Edward T. Bennett . |
| 10 | It was April and John Moore was studying for an important examination . |
| 11 | You will remember that Julie Smith was admitted for an emergency appendicectomy and was only in the ward for a short period before going to theatre . |