Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rates of 1.9 and 1.7 per 100 births were reported for primiparous women in the age groups 15–24 and 35 and over , respectively . |
| 2 | About 600 members of the armed forces were discharged for alleged involvement in the coup attempt . |
| 3 | Bids were prepared for commercial work in the Falkland Islands and Laos . |
| 4 | Bids were prepared for commercial work in the Falkland Islands and Laos . |
| 5 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 6 | Many of our own labyrinths were built for public amusement in the Victorian era but were destroyed during wartime . |
| 7 | These ratings were collected for ongoing research in debiasing ( see for example Groeger and Chapman 1990 ) and they will not be described further in this thesis . |
| 8 | Bilateral talks on fishing quotas off Newfoundland were scheduled for early July in Ottawa , Canada . |
| 9 | During the 1960s these two sea-adventures were republished for young readers in Penguin 's Puffin division ; there was more confidence then than there seems to be in the eighties that the accessibility of Masefield 's story lines and his energetic prose would justify offering to capable readers in the early and mid-teens novels written for adults . |
| 10 | He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening . |
| 11 | Alongside doctrinal debates , it was decided early in the Council that the fathers were to legislate for widespread reform in the Roman Church . |
| 12 | Subject weighting — it was agreed that Mathematics should form a base of one and figures were suggested for other subjects in order to start the discussion . |
| 13 | Briefly , office development permits were required for new offices in London . |
| 14 | Of the 415 cases of death in custody recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 , police officials were imprisoned for murdering prisoners in just three cases . |
| 15 | In addition Gen. Herminio Fuenmayor , the Director of Military Intelligence ( DIM ) , was dismissed for alleged involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 16 | Car 638 was rebuilt for one-man operation in 1969 , but was found unsuitable and subsequently scrapped . |
| 17 | It was conceded for rural workers in 1884 . |
| 18 | Cimetidine was introduced as a prescription drug in Denmark in 1977 and was accepted for general reimbursement in 1981 . |
| 19 | To explain this we need to use a rule based on syllable-structure , as was done for simple words in the previous chapter . |
| 20 | All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west . |
| 21 | While it was stated that ELIZA was looking for key phrases in the ‘ patient 's ’ input , its illusory importance was re-affirmed by repeating the computer 's dialogue at the end of the program . |
| 22 | Much that was written for architectural order in the mid-18th century resonates as much today , says Charles McKean |
| 23 | At the political level , proportional representation was abolished for local elections in 1922 and for Stormont elections in 1929 . |
| 24 | One MP was sued for alleged libel in June 1978 over a jibe in the supporters . |
| 25 | This time last year he was caring for injured animals in his back garden in Aylesbury . |
| 26 | Moore said that the plutonium was used for civil purposes in the US . |
| 27 | 19E was delicensed on 17 February , but instead of being put into store like the others , it was painted plain red and fitted with primitive snow brooms , which were no more than boards with bristles attached , fitted in place of the lifeguard gates and it was used for sweeping snow in the Croydon area until 31 March 1937 . |
| 28 | His case was a strong one and when he was prosecuted for criminal libel in 1913 he won a moral , if not a legal victory , avoiding the expected prison sentence . |
| 29 | Thus , French High Commissioner Pignon was hoping for American assistance in replacing and repairing military equipment ; said he was prepared for US military aid to go direct to the Vietnam government ; but also , in order to deter a Chinese invasion of Tonkin , was trying to talk the US into sending warships , particularly aircraft-carriers , into Indo-Chinese waters . |
| 30 | The Spaak Report was unveiled for public debate in March 1956 in a special session of the ECSC Common Assembly , where only one vote was registered against its proposals ( though it should be noted that the extremes of the political spectrum were not represented in Strasbourg ) . |