Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the cards were written , they were taken to the school chapel where prayers were said for everyone imprisoned for their beliefs . |
| 2 | The three piano concertos , which Mozart described as a happy medium between what is too easy and what is too difficult — virtuosic , pleasant to listen to , and natural without being banal — were written for himself to play at his subscription concerts . |
| 3 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 4 | The cavalcade stopped and orders were issued for us to rest in the fields around the church whilst Queen Margaret and her principal attendants went inside . |
| 5 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 6 | Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute , but there was no shelving , which made the library unusable . |
| 7 | ‘ As I was blind , it was arranged for me to stay at the organiser 's house . |
| 8 | Although we should be wary of taking all such accounts at face value , since party feeling often ran sufficiently high amongst local inhabitants that little encouragement was needed for them to come to blows , such practices certainly did go on . |
| 9 | Again , space was provided for them to say in what ways and the following typify what was written : |
| 10 | Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram . |
| 11 | When a stick was cut for him to use as a crutch he hobbled about the yard , complaining that nothing was being done properly in his absence . |
| 12 | And the interest was prime rate high , and the flames were falling now because little was left for them to feed from . |