Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
2 | Two Kurds were injured , one seriously , in a fire inside their locked room at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow airport a day after they were told their application for political asylum in Britain had failed . |
3 | As always the major attractions were romantic landscapes and the monuments of culture , but by the 1860s the British ( pioneers as usual ) were exporting their passion for physical exercise on to the mountains of Switzerland , where they were later to found skiing as a winter sport . |
4 | The difference was that these professionals were giving their time for free . |
5 | He believed an , as yet unidentifiable , soccer manager was using my house for adulterous purposes with a young female on his staff . |
6 | At the same time he was pursuing his preference for bilateral meetings : these culminated during the first two months of 1961 with his meeting first with the British premier , Harold Macmillan , and then with Konrad Adenauer . |
7 | This time , the Daily Mail was reporting his conviction for armed robbery . |
8 | But , as usual , what Mr Gummer was most interested in was sharing his recipe for spit-roasting members of the Opposition . |
9 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
10 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |