Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arrangements , however , only affect policies that were applied for after the April 1987 deadline . |
| 2 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 3 | The other arts were catered for in the music room with organ and harpsichord , and the library , including fine bookcases by Adam . |
| 4 | No we did n't buy tyres , no they were tyre mileage rates and erm mileage was the , tyres were paid for on the mileage run . |
| 5 | Those shows of identity were paid for by the pennies of miners and the barrier was imposed by the philistine , alien Government who do not know the difference between a work of art and a tin of baked beans . |
| 6 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 7 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 8 | of the capital costs of the CTC programme , including those of the Telford college in my constituency , were paid for by the taxpayer ? |
| 9 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 10 | These , and the many other fine Victorian buildings in the city , were paid for by the fortunes made in the 19th century in the wool manufacturing and tailoring trades . |
| 11 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 12 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 13 | He was cared for by the Sisters of Mercy at the Horsforth home for retired clergy . |
| 14 | He was cared for by the sisters of Bon Secours at Passy until his death 16 October 1886 , and was buried quietly in the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris . |
| 15 | In March , an inquiry was called for into the case of manager Dereck Jones , who took away property belonging to Llynfi workshop . |
| 16 | No evidence was called for from the professionals working in the health services , yet this review and White Paper have introduced some of the most radical suggestions for running the health services since the original 1946 Act . |
| 17 | The hologram 's face flickered momentarily , the programme uncertain what facial expression was called for by the question . |
| 18 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 19 | An OAU Military Observer Group ( GOM ) was provided for under the July ceasefire agreement . |
| 20 | In September 1952 the same countries began to discuss a European Political Community ( EPC ) , which was provided for under the EDC treaty . |
| 21 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 22 | First of all chairman we have put in this morning erm a paper on commitments which erm I think was asked for by the panel which is this document which should have been circulated er by now . |
| 23 | The whole of the accumulation , he said , was accounted for to the fraction of one farthing . |
| 24 | The minor drop in sales was accounted for by the Guardian joint disaster recovery venture with ICL ( CI No 1,664 ) but is not considered serious . |
| 25 | Figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed a 7 per cent increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with the same period in 1990 ; 42 per cent of this increase was accounted for by the manufacturing sector . |
| 26 | A reduction of 7 per cent in total emissions last year was accounted for by the drop in industrial production , rather than stricter pollution controls , the report said . |
| 27 | The majority of this expenditure was accounted for by the Department of Trade and Industry 's regional policy measures , which have concentrated aid on supporting investment in traditional , capital-intensive manufacturing industry . |
| 28 | It was paid for by the Coats family and cost a phenomenal £100,000 or £3,300,000 in 1990 terms . |
| 29 | It was paid for by the county using money from the national Transport Road Research Laboratory . |
| 30 | stated , for information , that Belgian scholarship students ' travel , to and from the training place , was paid for by the Trustees . |