Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some features included in the Once-Over design were remarkably advanced for a tractor manufactured before 1920 . |
| 2 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 3 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 4 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 5 | The intervention was modest and trading was thin because US markets were largely closed for a holiday . |
| 6 | Clapton was also an isolated spot where the traps were usually left for a couple of days before being checked . |
| 7 | TEN City executives and a solicitor were yesterday bailed for a total of £1.1million after appearing at Guildhall magistrates court on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Blue Arrow rights issue . |
| 8 | Members of Convocation Standing Committee were invited to take part in the procession , and were later joined for a marquee lunch by Convocation representatives on Court . |
| 9 | Rescripts were often penned for a case , and not for the world at large . |
| 10 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 11 | The strings here , in the opening , were untypically ragged for a spell , but the second movement was beautifully played and the finale had an agreeable buoyancy . |
| 12 | The four smugglers involved in this case were subsequently gaoled for a total of thirty one years . |
| 13 | Although the evidence for these flights is little better than anecdotal , sufficient information is available in his published and private papers to make possible the construction of a reproduction of the latter machine , which was successfully flown for a television film in 1972 . |
| 14 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 15 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 16 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 17 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 18 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 19 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 20 | A STEWARTSTOWN housewife who struck an Army officer on the face was conditionally discharged for a year at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday for assault . |
| 21 | Brine , who admitted two charges of being drunk and disorderly and failing to surrender to bail , was conditionally discharged for a year . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON Harrier Ruth Williams was just pipped for a hat-trick of victories in the Mandale Harriers Cyril Elliott Memorial meeting at Middlesbrough on Saturday . |
| 23 | This was not achieved for a number of reasons . |
| 24 | SUN-SEEKING Mr Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was NOT needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain . |
| 25 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 26 | Jean Braendlin , the Toulon prop , was yesterday banned for a year by the French Rugby Federation for kicking a grounded opponent on Saturday . |
| 27 | PITT , THE PRODUCT of a strict Southern Baptist upbringing in Springfield , Missouri , was once headed for a career in journalism . |
| 28 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 29 | At the same time , John was made Earl of Gloucester , and awarded the lands of Mortain in Normandy — to which he was instantly banished for a term of three years , Richard 's clearest vote of no confidence in his brother . |
| 30 | A call was also made for a terrorist offensive . |