Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 2 | Another generation of Labour leaders , in the 1960s , were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning . |
| 3 | Alan Taylor from Torness and John Logie from Peel Park were both selected to ride for the Scottish team in the four-way international match races against England , Wales and Ireland . |
| 4 | While Archbishop Reynolds and some other bishops and royal clerks colluded with the king , the lower clergy presented stout resistance , precisely as they had done in 1294 when they were also invited to pay for the tune played by the prelates . |
| 5 | Gastric antral biopsy specimens were also taken to check for the presence of H pylori by histology ( 2 specimens ) and culture ( 1 specimen ) , as previously described . |
| 6 | Even here , unless the purchaser was expressly authorised to contract for the principal , such a contract can only be ratified if the purchaser , at the time of making the contract , professed to contract on the principal 's behalf . |
| 7 | As a result , Balder was only allowed to return for a certain period of time , only to disappear and return again . |
| 8 | When Peter Hickton was finally persuaded to stop for the day , at about seven , Charles Paris walked with the author to the pub round the corner . |
| 9 | He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York . |
| 10 | But poor old Wayne Phillips was always going to suffer for the demise of the local hero , unless he got at least 100 in his first trip to the crease . |
| 11 | Marsh was always expected to return for the World Cup , and Waugh , with this superb innings , made it extremely difficult for the selectors to ignore him too . |
| 12 | The returns from 55 courses have been used in analysis , but more have been received since the survey was temporarily closed to allow for the preparation of this report for the Science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 13 | Mortimer was also tempted to go for the sentries , but also recognized the folly of such a move . |
| 14 | Mr Dunwell said it was also hoped to arrange for a prostitute to address the meeting . |
| 15 | It was also expected to work for the coordination of economic and monetary policies and the harmonisation of fiscal and social policies , and of law . |
| 16 | The voluntary hospital , the Infirmary , was specifically designed to care for the sick , and its relative freedom from the constraints associated with spending public money gave it the advantage over the sick wards at the workhouse . |