Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 2 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 3 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 4 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |
| 5 | In addition , a bathymetric survey of Finlaggan Loch , Islay , which was made for the National Museum of Scotland , was combined with investigations by a BGS diving team . |
| 6 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 7 | He demolished the existing Saxon church and erected St Bartholomew 's ( 1847 ) , which was noted for the interior decorations by Owen Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . |
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| 10 | If the new DC is based on an existing one , all the information which was supplied for the original DC will be displayed here , and can be updated for the new DC ; otherwise , any existing details for your DC will be displayed . |
| 11 | If the new DC is based on an existing one , all the information which was supplied for the original DC will be displayed here , and can be updated for the new DC ; otherwise , any existing details for your DC will be displayed . |
| 12 | If the new DC is based on an existing one , all the information which was supplied for the original DC will be displayed here , and can be updated for the new DC ; otherwise , any existing details for your DC will be displayed . |
| 13 | If the new DC is based on an existing one , all the information which was supplied for the original DC will be displayed here , and can be updated for the new DC ; otherwise , any existing details for your DC will be displayed . |
| 14 | This led in due course to the enactment of a new code which was substituted for the relevant sections of the Act of 1972 by the Transport Act 1981 and is now found , without material alteration , in the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 15 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 16 | He is the star of the 45-second Yellow Pages plug of 1982 which was screened for the following eight years , setting something of a record in advertising circles . |
| 17 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 18 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 19 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 20 | A verdict was given against a Liverpool Constable by a jury … in a case in which Mrs Jane Roche , wife of a bookmaker , claimed damages from Sergt. John Borrows ( who was dismissed for the malicious prosecution claim ) and Constable Ernest David Laurie of the Liverpool Police … |
| 21 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 22 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 23 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 24 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 25 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 26 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 27 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 28 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |
| 29 | He was known for the refined dandyism of his appearance , the flutterings and oscillations of his bearing , his heavy drinking , and his intense shyness . |
| 30 | After that he was backed for the National and although the urbane Gaselee is not prone to hyperbole he feels that , if he reproduces that Haydock run , Party Politics will take all the beating . |