Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The independent schools inspectorate , HMI , in a report published yesterday on the ‘ rather tentative start ’ of AS levels , said a quarter of schools were using these for the wrong reasons , often as a safeguard for weaker Alevel candidates . |
| 2 | But he soon got into his stride , and began to develop a whole bestiary of characters who were to delight millions for the next twenty-three years . |
| 3 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 4 | It is also possible that with the decline in activity in Norfolk , other eastern counties were considered attractive for the next phase in development , perhaps because the ground in the west appeared to have been secured through Shearman and Miss Green . |
| 5 | Statistical comparison of tumour growth rate was by two way analysis of variance ( time and treatment regimen ) and tumour weight and DNA content by one way analysis of variance , p values <0.01 were considered significant for the two way analysis and p values <0.05 for the one way analysis . |
| 6 | Taxi drivers still complain a bit , as they do , but parking facilities were made available for the disabled . |
| 7 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 8 | Recent studies on breast carcinomas showed that high urokinase type plasminogen activator concentrations in tissue extracts are positively and independently associated with aggressiveness and poor prognosis while low tissue type plasminogen activator concentrations were found indicative for a shorter disease free interval and survival . |
| 9 | The fact that , unlike men , women 's periods of bodily emission followed a regular and extended ( i.e. several days at a time ) cycle meant that they were declared unclean for a large part of their lives ( for details see below ) . |
| 10 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 11 | Elections to a 41-member House of Representatives of the People last took place in July 1988 , when all candidates were nominated by the President and were elected unopposed for a five-year term . |
| 12 | Elections to the House of Representatives of the People last took place in July 1988 , when all candidates were nominated by the President and were elected unopposed for a five-year term [ see p. 36200 ] . |
| 13 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 14 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 15 | Due to the increased complexity arising from multiple word candidates in the input and the requirement that the system provide a wide coverage of English the use of an ATN-based grammar was considered unsuitable for the current application . |
| 16 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 17 | In Moscow , Red Square was made ready for the triumphalist May Day parade . |
| 18 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 19 | In the following year he was made responsible for the new shrine which Henry III was beginning for Edward the Confessor . |
| 20 | Obiang Nguema was re-elected unopposed for a further seven-year term as President in June 1989 [ see p. 36727 ] . |
| 21 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 22 | Thirdly , he was declared bankrupt for the second time in 1912 on a creditor 's petition . |
| 23 | ‘ 'Scuse me , sir — when the meeting finished and the other gentlemen went off home , the gates was left open for a few minutes . |
| 24 | He was knocked unconscious for a brief period but luckily nothing was broken . |
| 25 | Zhang was killed instantly , although his death was kept secret for a few days . |
| 26 | Subsequently , in 1899 , Carter was offered the position of Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt , but his post with the Egyptian Antiquities service came to an abrupt end when he was held responsible for a near diplomatic incident in which disgruntled French tourists assaulted some guards at a site . |
| 27 | The measure had been strongly opposed by powerful interest groups ( including the chaebol , the large conglomerates which dominate the country 's economy ) and its imminent imposition was held responsible for the recent removal abroad of funds from the Korean stock exchange . |
| 28 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 29 | Ali Hassan Mwinyi was returned unopposed for a second five-year term as President on Oct. 28 . |