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 intervention was modest and trading was thin because US markets were largely closed for a holiday . |
| 4 | Clapton was also an isolated spot where the traps were usually left for a couple of days before being checked . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rescripts were often penned for a case , and not for the world at large . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The four smugglers involved in this case were subsequently gaoled for a total of thirty one years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 18 | A STEWARTSTOWN housewife who struck an Army officer on the face was conditionally discharged for a year at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday for assault . |
| 19 | Brine , who admitted two charges of being drunk and disorderly and failing to surrender to bail , was conditionally discharged for a year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Jean Braendlin , the Toulon prop , was yesterday banned for a year by the French Rugby Federation for kicking a grounded opponent on Saturday . |
| 23 | PITT , THE PRODUCT of a strict Southern Baptist upbringing in Springfield , Missouri , was once headed for a career in journalism . |
| 24 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A call was also made for a terrorist offensive . |
| 27 | It was originally built for a branch of the Rosemberg family in the second half of the 16C . |
| 28 | He was even engaged for a while to Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert , but she ditched him and married New York actor Bo Brinkman instead . |
| 29 | Brian Deane , elevated to the full England squad for Wednesday 's World Cup clash with San Marino , pounced on some dithering by Bruce to fire a shot that was narrowly deflected for a corner . |
| 30 | Haussmann indicated that the West German economy was well placed for a continuation of these favourable trends and , more broadly , for the challenges presented by the political and economic transformation in East Germany and for completion of the EC internal market by the end of 1992 . |