Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ELEVEN soccer fans were arrested for a variety of public order offences following Saturday 's Third Division soccer match between Hartlepool United and Stoke City . |
| 2 | Pest Control branches were scoured for a bubble big enough to get the van into , and the London East fumigators — Brian Bacon , Ian Buchan and Terry Hart carried out a successful fumigation . |
| 3 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 4 | Data were acquired for a minimum of 5 hours . |
| 5 | The baths were closed for a fortnight at least , for a complete disinfection , a change of water , much stronger chlorification and new instructions for the cleansing of the feet of would-be bathers and a thorough check-up of the much higher chlorine addition . |
| 6 | Fasting was maintained for a minimum of six hours . |
| 7 | Joel Gascoyne was apprenticed for a period of seven years from 21 October 1668 to John Thornton . |
| 8 | 3 years ago , Waddesdon Manor was used for a summit between Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterand . |
| 9 | As Gabriel 's concentration was broken for a moment , his shears cut the sheep 's skin . |
| 10 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 11 | An accountant who bought and sold shares worth £250,000 in various public flotations using false names and addresses was jailed for a year and fined £25,000 yesterday . |
| 12 | A THIEF who stole from cars was jailed for a year yesterday . |
| 13 | Fortunately I had taken my camera-bag with me , so fishing was abandoned for a while as I attempted to take pictures of moving birds from a moving boat ! |
| 14 | He fined himself a week 's wages for joining in a shouting match with Linfield officials after Tommy Leeman was booked for a tackle on Lee Doherty . |
| 15 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 16 | Her nose was too small to balance her high flat cheekbones , and her mouth was made for a face at least two sizes larger . |
| 17 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 18 | Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes . |
| 19 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 20 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 21 | Two directors were suspended for a year and the chairman and manager banned from football for good . |
| 22 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 23 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 24 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 25 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 26 | Top price of £990 was paid for a Whitehead cow and heifer calf from J J Murphy , Caledon . |
| 27 | Even the Clunbury Coach was forgotten for a while whilst the gems of Midland heritage were admired . |
| 28 | In February 1989 , when the Louvre was closed for a month , museum experts under the direction of Lola Faillant-Dumas examined the ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ with infra-red reflectography , using a Hamatsu camera attached to a screen for immediate visualisation . |
| 29 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 30 | During the 1890s , Millbottom was run for a time in conjunction with Days Mill . |