Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women . |
| 2 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 3 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 4 | The lack of a forestry tradition was strikingly demonstrated recently , when no tenders were received for the thinning of a Forestry Commission plantation in Lewis . |
| 5 | Reckless reported a large series of 154 diabetics who were examined for the presence of macrovascular complications with relation to actual lipoprotein levels ( Reckless et al , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , biopsies from lesions were examined for the presence of cytomegalovirus by immunohistology . |
| 7 | One hundred and fourteen patients were referred for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 8 | Their house was attacked by a mob and the family were interned for the duration of the war as ‘ enemy aliens ’ . |
| 9 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 10 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 11 | They used fishing rods and hooks , those cunning , black , nocturnal anglers , and they were blamed for the disappearance of booze from liquor cabinets and sugar from pantries . |
| 12 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 13 | However , on Jan. 13 re-contras were blamed for the kidnapping of four policemen from the Rio Blanco police station . |
| 14 | Chiming clocks and the ringing of church bells were forbidden for the duration of hostilities , or until the invasion came . |
| 15 | Proposals were carried for the creation of " broad committees " , " Leagues of Young Chartists " and similar groups to attract those " who will not go all the way with the Minority Movement " . |
| 16 | No further such attacks on Armenian territory were reported for the rest of May , but on May 11 it was reported by Armenian officials that Getashen and Martunashen had been razed , and their populations of several thousand people deported . |
| 17 | During the campaign she found 2 women with whom she could not work , they were dropped for the good of the project . |
| 18 | Kennedy was fighting on the issue of public accountability for scientists , and the Friends of the Earth were pressing for the withdrawal of Federal funding for recombinant experiments . |
| 19 | By the 1830's the richer proprietors were pressing for the alienation of the commons . |
| 20 | Deparaffinised and cryostat sections of the gastric biopsy specimens were evaluated for the presence of various antigens using the immunoalkaline phosphatase method ( APAAP ) . |
| 21 | The position was however different as regards A and the company , for they had not been charged , and in the view of the deputy judge were in no better or worse position than any other potential witness from whom information and documents were sought for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of the Act . |
| 22 | Remedies were sought for the lack of international liquidity and for the other causes of the decline in international trade — especially during the 1930s . |
| 23 | Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field . |
| 24 | Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field . |
| 25 | Whilst the AWCC were lobbying for the conversion of vacant apartments to market rate housing , the population interviewed by Ahlbrandt and Cunningham ( 1980 ) suggested that the high house prices caused the greatest concern in the area . |
| 26 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 27 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 28 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 29 | The Co-prosperity Sphere became an area whose resources were exploited for the benefit of Japan . |
| 30 | As Manchukuo 's raw materials were exploited for the benefit of Japan 's industrial economy , the area became a centre for heavy industrial development . |