Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional 's ZS-LYW was built for the USAAF as C-47B-1-DK 43–48541 and joined the RAF as Dakota IV KJ863 in August 1944 before joining the nascent Pakistan Air Force ( as H-713 ) sometime in 1947/1948 . |
| 2 | Sarella 's heart was wrung for a moment as she remembered how hard Marc was on his younger brother . |
| 3 | The important point about the example , though , is that neither the instructor 's action nor the pupil 's action was required for the stopping . |
| 4 | But Pearl 's study was criticized for the non-randomness of his sample . |
| 5 | As Gabriel 's concentration was broken for a moment , his shears cut the sheep 's skin . |
| 6 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 7 | Edward 's job was to prepare for the arrival of the family . |
| 8 | In the 1960s , the connection to a political theme — the supposed new energies released by a Labour-led ‘ swinging Britain' — of the notions of boy-next-door , man-in-the-street ‘ classlessness ’ constructed around the early Beatles , was one way in which the music 's meaning was secured for the dominant social interests . |
| 9 | George 's funeral was arranged for the Wednesday morning . |
| 10 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 11 | Little seemed in Mrs Whitehouse 's eyes to change at the BBC and , in early 1964 , the Corporation 's Charter was renewed for a further twelve years without any of the additional ‘ safeguards ’ that Mrs Whitehouse would have liked to have seen written in . |
| 12 | Thus , while the stucco was engraved at the château of Monte Cristo , the Bey 's mausoleum was delayed for an entire year . |
| 13 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 14 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 15 | Three compartments next to the guard 's van were kept for the use of fare paying passengers . |
| 16 | But brother Bobby felt that Sinatra 's lifestyle was damaging for the President 's image . |
| 17 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 18 | A fire in the roof space above the directors ' boardroom was to blame for the match being delayed 40 minutes , but the fans did not panic as police and fire service personnel ensured there was no danger . |
| 19 | Shaftesbury Homes ' report was praised for a good treasurer 's report , accounts and cash flow statement . |
| 20 | The Samaritans ' report was praised for a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it |