Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 2 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 3 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 4 | In many fields , however , the use of cash limits , monitoring and sub-contracting served only to stabilize employment levels ( Table 5.8 ) in the face of growing demand ( for instance for health services , unemployment benefit or policing ) , and permanent reductions were shown principally for the civil service and nationalized industries . |
| 5 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 6 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 7 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 8 | They were locked away for the closing stages of the case in Denver , Colorado , to prevent the tragedy influencing their decision . |
| 9 | Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden . |
| 10 | Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push . |
| 11 | Similarly , statistically significant incremental responses of enteroglucagon to deoxycholate were found only for the three highest doses ( 3.3 mM : incremental response 4.9 ( 1.2 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =6.8 , p<0.02 ; 10.0 mM : incremental response 10.7 ( 3.4 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =27.8 , p= 0.00004 ; 30 mM : incremental response 10.1 ( 1.6 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =20.9 , p=0.0002 ) ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 12 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 13 | Patients were flocking in for the new treatment . |
| 14 | His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years . |
| 15 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 16 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 17 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
| 18 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 19 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 20 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 21 | In November 1771 he sold to the Admiralty two vessels constructed at Whitby which , renamed Resolution and Adventure , were fitted out for the second great voyage of discovery ( 1772–5 ) of Commander ( later Captain ) James Cook [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | On 1st April 1989 , annual domestic rate bills were sent out for the last time . |
| 23 | Parasitaemia on thick blood films and symptoms were recorded daily for the first week and subsequently every week until 28 days after therapy . |
| 24 | On top of that , French banks were paid twice for the same service , first by French traders as a result of the Helsinki agreement and , second , by foreign banks ( those that the drawers of Eurocheques banked with ) as a result of the Eurocheque system exempted by the Commission in 1984 . |
| 25 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 26 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 27 | PLANNING clearance was given yesterday for the shore-based part of a £1.5 billion gas project which will create spin-off contracts for firms in the offshore supply business , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 28 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 29 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 30 | For most work completed prior to 1989 construction was carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council with financial support from the former Manpower Services Commission . |