Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 3 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 4 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |