Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 2 | The duties of the CCC , which was to work ‘ in close touch ’ with the Central Juvenile Employment Exchange , were to arrange for the vocational guidance of prospective school-leavers and to liaise with exchange officials in registering juveniles and in selecting applicants for interviews . |
| 3 | Three main reasons were given for the apparent lack of enthusiasm : board members found it difficult to spare additional time for this form of training ; they were doubtful of the ability of outside trainers to provide training in tune with local needs ; attempts by some education authorities to retain part of the training budget in order to supply such area sessions were seen by some members as demonstrating a lack of trust in the board 's ability to organise its own training . |
| 4 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 5 | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President since 1980 , was returned to office unopposed when no other nominations were received for the presidential election scheduled for June 26 ; she was to begin her fourth four-year term on Aug. 1 , 1992 . |
| 6 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 7 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 8 | Delay times were rearranged for the consonant groups in the list for each trial so that particular consonant groups were not always associated with the same delay time . |
| 9 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , the native pinewoods — one of the last extensive remnants of the north European forests — were looted for the English navy . |
| 10 | But , increasingly , films look like they were designed for the small screen . |
| 11 | During this stage quadratic harmonic potentials were included for the covalent geometry , a square-well quadratic term was used for the distances and dihedral restraints , and a quartic potential was used for the van der Waals term ( F- repel ) . |
| 12 | Canary yellow , no. 108 , ochre , No. 184 and brown ochre , No. 182 were applied for the golden glazes on the coffee pot , cup and saucer , with an ultimate highlight of white . |
| 13 | At least in one case prayers were said for the brave men fighting on both sides . |
| 14 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , Jimmy and his colleagues were pipped for the single promotion place by Charlton Athletic on goal average alone , in the most exciting finish to a 3rd Division South season in the history of our club , but it is perfectly possible to argue that , had Jimmy Wilde become available to Palace just one or two matches earlier , Palace would have crowned his first season with us with success . |
| 16 | The theses advocated both support for national liberation movements and agitation to ensure that workers and peasants were prepared for the Soviet revolution which was to follow , a policy contradiction which was never resolved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |
| 19 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 20 | Pilots who were selected for the early courses were from very varied backgrounds . |
| 21 | Demands were made for the immediate distribution of gas masks , most notably by Foreign Minister David Levi on Aug. 20 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Each committee was aware of the dangers of individual or mass arrest , and contingency plans were made for the automatic replacement of committee members should they be arrested . |
| 24 | Adjustments were made for the continuous variables triceps skinfold ( measured as recommended by Tanner and Whitehouse , expressed as standard deviation scores calculated by the method of Cole ) and reported maternal height . |
| 25 | Two specific claims were made for the new drug . |
| 26 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis . |
| 29 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 30 | The serum samples from patients with high cytotoxic activity were used for the subsequent ADCC assay . |