Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for a " in BNC.

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1 Sarella 's heart was wrung for a moment as she remembered how hard Marc was on his younger brother .
2 As Gabriel 's concentration was broken for a moment , his shears cut the sheep 's skin .
3 Little seemed in Mrs Whitehouse 's eyes to change at the BBC and , in early 1964 , the Corporation 's Charter was renewed for a further twelve years without any of the additional ‘ safeguards ’ that Mrs Whitehouse would have liked to have seen written in .
4 Thus , while the stucco was engraved at the château of Monte Cristo , the Bey 's mausoleum was delayed for an entire year .
5 HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word .
6 Shaftesbury Homes ' report was praised for a good treasurer 's report , accounts and cash flow statement .
7 The Samaritans ' report was praised for a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it
8 Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure .
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