Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 2 | At 31 March 1991 , Harland Simon held 50% of the equity share capital of Perfect Information but did not treat this as an associated undertaking because the investment was held for the short term and was disposed of in August 1991 . |
| 3 | A massive police search was launched for the former paratrooper involving 25 officers , a search and rescue team , dogs and horses . |
| 4 | That is strange , for the boat was moored for the last night and the river was calm . |
| 5 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 6 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 7 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 8 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 9 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 10 | On Sept. 27 a new coalition administration was formed for the Basque region , under the leadership of José Antonio Ardanza of the Basque National Party ( PNV ) as President ( lehendakari ) . |
| 11 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 12 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 13 | Although one suspects that the extreme rural and intermediate rural areas would be reduced in area if the same exercise were repeated for the 1981 census ( unfortunately it has n't and anyway would be difficult to do so since local authority boundaries have changed since 1971 ) , the analysis did allow Cloke ( 1978 ) to compare degrees of rurality between 1961 and 1971 , and to produce a three-fold typology of rural areas that were becoming increasingly non-rural , were static or becoming increasingly rural , and to produce maps of these three types for each of the four rural areas shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 14 | But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era . |
| 15 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 16 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 17 | Stoddard Templeton 's latest range was unveiled for the first time at the Brighton Carpet Exhibition in February . |
| 18 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 19 | An earnings means test was introduced for the old age pension , and the age of entitlement was raised in stages from 60 to 65 years . |
| 20 | A Wilcoxson signed rank test was used for the paired testof samples . |
| 21 | Mattel threatened legal action , and a multi-million pound battle was scheduled for the High Court next month . |
| 22 | Beveridge and his contemporaries were much inspired by Canon Barnett , who by 1900 was firmly convinced of the economic as well as personal causes of distress and that more state help was needed for the destitute . |
| 23 | A special committee was created for the 1907 Congress , and the irrepressible Van Kol again proposed a ‘ positive colonial policy ’ , affirming that ‘ under a socialist regime , colonization can be a work of civilization ’ . |
| 24 | A reorganization committee was established for the thirty-nine wards of the three hospitals . |
| 25 | The correct royal and liturgical equipment was required for the greatest feast of the church 's year : its arrival from so " far away " ( in fact , from northern Aquitaine ) was timely in every sense . |
| 26 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by them had ready access , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by the issues had ready access , he said . ’ |
| 28 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 29 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 30 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |