Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | North Tyneside Council said the riot-torn Meadow Well estate was among areas it was considering for the cash . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For a short period it was used for the manufacture of bedding materials and mattresses . |
| 4 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 5 | Last week it was shortlisted for the NCR prize , the winner to be announced on 20th May . |
| 6 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 7 | Sentences could require in excess of 9 hours for a result ( or crash ) during which time it was known for the system to refuse logins to other users due to insufficient swap space . |
| 8 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |