Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proclamation may not have had the effect which was desired for the next lease to come to light is 17 years later , between Sir John Pennington bart. , and Thomas Gorsuch of London , described as a goldsmith . |
| 2 | driving even further than spain is the Oxfordshire team of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell … the winners of the London to Sydney car marathon … are the first to enter the London to Mexico marathon which was unveiled for the first time this week … |
| 3 | The research makes use of data which were collected for the SE Gas Region in order to identify indicators of change in gas consumption . |
| 4 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 5 | If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way . |
| 6 | It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details . |
| 7 | Acknowledging his administrative talents and scholarly assets , Mrs Stevenson said the board felt , ‘ He simply did not have the specific skills which were needed for the job ’ . |
| 8 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 9 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 10 | The big city was a powerful draw to youngsters who were looking for the chance to better themselves . |
| 11 | North Tyneside Council said the riot-torn Meadow Well estate was among areas it was considering for the cash . |
| 12 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 13 | It was another uneasy week , and by Friday afternoon she was longing for the end of the shift so she could go home and wallow in misery . |
| 14 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 15 | Pilots who were selected for the early courses were from very varied backgrounds . |
| 16 | After the ceremony the bridal couple rushed to the photographer 's studio to have their portrait taken , before joining their guests who were waiting for the wedding meal . |
| 17 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 18 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |
| 19 | For a short period it was used for the manufacture of bedding materials and mattresses . |
| 20 | The idea is of some set of things which was required for the occurrence of the effect , which is not to say that the set includes all the things prior to the effect that were required for it . |
| 21 | Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World . |
| 22 | I hereby give notice that an inspector appointed by the Department of the Environment will attend at Bodicote House , Bodicote , Banbury on Thursday the 9th of March , 1989 at 10.00 a.m. to hold a local Inquiry into the above development which was refused for the reasons stated on the attached sheets marked ‘ Notice of Refusal of Permission for Development ’ . |
| 23 | R.B. The day you were interviewed for the youth tutor post |
| 24 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 25 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 26 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 27 | In cloze they were scored for the grammatical accuracy as well as the semantic correctness of their suggestions . |
| 28 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 29 | Many wave-energy researchers believe that the consistently unfavourable attitude of the EC towards wave power has its origins in unfavourable assessments which were provided for the Community by the British government . |
| 30 | It was argued on behalf of the respondents that the doctrine applied to a covenant which was imposed for the benefit of the trade of the covenantee and which either forbids the covenantor to carry on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on . |