Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 2 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 3 | Mr Bruce said that the Social Work Director Paul Lee had been asked if the families ' lawyers could have access to all the interviews and medical examinations of the children that were performed for the Social Work Department . |
| 4 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 5 | The processing for the probabilistic syntactic analyser has been carried out on the same hardware that was used for the rule-based investigations ( i.e. a SUN Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) . |
| 6 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 7 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 8 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 9 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 10 | Its cost was £5,000 per car and was destined for the twelve sun saloons and six of the 1937 railcoaches , although these never materialised . |
| 11 | Here again the core of the work probably dates from some time before ( late 1745 ) and was expanded for the 1747 event . |
| 12 | The plaintiff lived in Totteridge and was evaluated for the poor rates by the assessors for Hatfield . |
| 13 | It moved northward through France from the Mediterranean coast and was recorded for the first time in Britain at a site in Hampshire , in March 1961 . |
| 14 | FRANCE 'S conservative op-position routed the ruling Socialist Party in yesterday 's first round of the general election and was heading for the biggest landslide victory this century . |
| 15 | Mowbray was frustrated over Achilles tendon and ankle injuries , and was suspended for the last game when Celtic suffered an embarrassing home defeat to Hibs . |
| 16 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 17 | There is a poem by his friend Philip Larkin , entitled ‘ Letter to a Friend about Girls ’ , which was never published during Larkin 's lifetime but was retrieved for the Collected Poems of 1988 . |
| 18 | Its century of political independence forestalled the possibility of ‘ skipping ’ this stage , as was proposed for the colonial countries of the East . |
| 19 | As was found for the human protein sequence , the highly charged domains of the protein are homologous to highly charged regions of other proteins , especially the transcriptional regulator nucleolin . |