Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 2 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 3 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 4 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 5 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 6 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 7 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 8 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 9 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 10 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 11 | Then one day he was sent for by the refining director and given twenty-four hours to make up his mind about a posting to the United States . |
| 12 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 13 | At the same time there was an increase in the proportion of the populations of most union republics that was accounted for by the titular nationality , an increase that was again most marked in Central Asia with its higher birthrates . |
| 14 | Nearly 90 per cent of the overall increase in the labour force of 3.1 million between 1971 and 1990 was accounted for by the increased participation of women . |
| 15 | The thing was paid for by the International Fund for Animal Welfare : animal welfare is obviously a good cash-flow business . |
| 16 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |