Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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' . |
| 7 | Thirdly , he was declared bankrupt for the second time in 1912 on a creditor 's petition . |
| 8 | Ali Hassan Mwinyi was returned unopposed for a second five-year term as President on Oct. 28 . |