Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 2 | Fron piled up 232–4 as Gwilym Williams ( 56 ) and Steve Jones ( 37 not out ) weighed in with useful contributions , and then Pwllheli were shot out for total of just 66 as Chris Tilston took 5–13 . |
| 3 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 4 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 5 | Then more of our staff were called up for service with Queen Alexandra 's Imperial Military Nursing Service . |
| 6 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 7 | This week 14 paintings were put up for auction in London so the gallery could clear its debts and provide grants for artists , particularly students , in the region . |
| 8 | The privatization of industry in the Czech Lands began on Aug. 8 when 50 of the republic 's largest businesses were put up for sale on international markets . |
| 9 | Then , in autumn 1991 , proposals for the new qualifications were put out for consultation with a very wide range of organisations , including Scottish colleges , central institutions , universities , secondary schools , industry lead bodies , professional bodies , Scottish Enterprise , Highlands and Islands Enterprise , and Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 10 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 11 | Thus , tenants were singled out for protection regarding rent levels and security , but mere licensees were excluded from this . |
| 12 | Two of his country houses , Eshton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1825–7 ) , and Underley Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale ( 1825–8 ) , are amongst the very earliest examples of this idiom , as well as being notably accomplished productions which were singled out for praise in Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture ( 1839 ) , by Henry Shaw [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | If you were contracted out for part of your working life , the DHSS tells your employer how much to pay as pension . |
| 14 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 15 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 16 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
| 17 | The request was turned down for fear of creating a traffic hazard as Joseph Pease 's statue later did . |
| 18 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 19 | Most were not considered worth interviewing , but a shortlist was drawn up for interview at the Northern Foods flat in Clarges Street . |
| 20 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 21 | In fact the major pilgrimage route to Santiago is said to be that by which Priscillian 's body was brought back for burial from Trier . |
| 22 | The material for a given vehicle was split up for convenience under various grouped headings . |
| 23 | Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) are increasingly concerned over the problem of Eastern Europe 's growing nuclear waste , which until the beginning of this year was taken back for reprocessing under special concessional terms by the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Richart , who plotted to assassinate the king in a brothel , was a liberal army paymaster who was passed over for absorption into the civil service — the only career for superfluous officers . |
| 25 | Lincoln went into receivership and was put up for sale on 4 February , 1922 . |
| 26 | The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month . |
| 27 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 28 | The loss-making Observer , the world 's oldest Sunday newspaper , was put up for sale by Lonrho , its owners . |
| 29 | Fisons ' horticulture division was put up for sale in April . |
| 30 | one lady said she was put off for life after her first kiss , and never kissed another man . |