Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 2 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 3 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 4 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 5 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 6 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 7 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 8 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 9 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 10 | The potentially confounding variables of age , alcohol consumption , and medication were controlled for in a logistic regression model , with the binary variable depression versus all other diagnoses as the dependent variable , and systolic and diastolic blood pressure as independent variables . |
| 11 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 12 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 13 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 14 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 15 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 16 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 17 | Then one day he was sent for by the refining director and given twenty-four hours to make up his mind about a posting to the United States . |
| 18 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 19 | Most of this increase was accounted for by a planned NKr5,000 million fund to help the banking sector . |
| 20 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 21 | The large number of foot-soldiers suggests either that they were mercenaries , or that their presence was accounted for by a surviving obligation under the ban . |
| 22 | At the same time there was an increase in the proportion of the populations of most union republics that was accounted for by the titular nationality , an increase that was again most marked in Central Asia with its higher birthrates . |
| 23 | Nearly 90 per cent of the overall increase in the labour force of 3.1 million between 1971 and 1990 was accounted for by the increased participation of women . |
| 24 | This was paid for by a special tax and payments continued until 1979 . |
| 25 | The thing was paid for by the International Fund for Animal Welfare : animal welfare is obviously a good cash-flow business . |
| 26 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |