Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 2 | The other arts were catered for in the music room with organ and harpsichord , and the library , including fine bookcases by Adam . |
| 3 | Edith died in 1871 and Maud and her sister Kathleen were cared for by a nurse and governess . |
| 4 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 5 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 6 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 7 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 8 | The potentially confounding variables of age , alcohol consumption , and medication were controlled for in a logistic regression model , with the binary variable depression versus all other diagnoses as the dependent variable , and systolic and diastolic blood pressure as independent variables . |
| 9 | In March , an inquiry was called for into the case of manager Dereck Jones , who took away property belonging to Llynfi workshop . |
| 10 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 11 | His more than usually lumpy appearance was accounted for by a variety of new bulges about his person , all promising delightful treats . |
| 12 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 13 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 14 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 15 | Bangladeshi infants were cared for in a consistently rich sensory environment ; Welsh infants , in contrast , were more likely to experience alternating periods of high and low sensory input . |
| 16 | No evidence was called for from the professionals working in the health services , yet this review and White Paper have introduced some of the most radical suggestions for running the health services since the original 1946 Act . |
| 17 | Anything from a half to a third of colliers ' earnings was accounted for by an allowance of two draughts of coal a week , and when other Staffordshire coal owners tried to follow the Earl 's example , they found their miners demanding threepence a day in compensation . |
| 18 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 19 | The network of great estates — Bexhill , Ticehurst , Climping and so on — produced a surplus , and , together with their wider economic and social needs , trade was catered for by a network of market centres . |
| 20 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 21 | Fundamental constitutional reconstruction was called for as a matter of urgency . |
| 22 | The minor drop in sales was accounted for by the Guardian joint disaster recovery venture with ICL ( CI No 1,664 ) but is not considered serious . |
| 23 | The mine was paid for by a loan package of which $257 million came from European Coal and Steel Community funds via the EC . |
| 24 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 25 | Baseline differences were allowed for in the follow up analyses by examining changes from baseline . |
| 26 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 27 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 28 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 29 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 30 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |