Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Were you waiting for the school
2 How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ?
3 What was unexpected , at least by Adobe , was that Microsoft , who were themselves looking for an outline font technology for Presentation Manager , would side with Apple and agree to adopt TrueType .
4 She ate without comment but there was nothing left for the dogs .
5 First , they wanted to see if he could pass himself off as Swedish , or if there was anybody working for the enemy who might have an inkling of his presence or identity .
6 What was there to show for the union 's militancy when no-one could recall a single dispute in which it had been successful ?
7 He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp .
8 Was he going for a water ?
9 Bearing in mind the policy modifications imposed on the Urban Programme after 1979 , what kind of supportive environment was it providing for the cities by the mid-to-late 1980s ?
10 Whose idea was it to send for the Mamur Zapt anyway ? ’
11 Instead of how to stimulate demand sufficiently to absorb all that the machines could produce , the problem was what to substitute for the planet 's fast-diminishing raw material and energy resources .
12 The scheme was funded out of general taxation , though an element of payment for the health service remained in the national insurance contribution , creating a confusing illusion that this was what paid for the service .
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