Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] for [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections were last held in August 1987 [ see p. 35490 ] , when the ruling coalition was returned for a further term of office . |
| 2 | Elections to the 125 elective seats in the Assembly last took place in October 1988 ; at the same time the President was re-elected for a further five-year term , having held the office since independence [ see pp. 36264-65 ] . |
| 3 | Stone or marble was used for the lower parts of the walls , the upper being of sun-dried brick and timber . |
| 4 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 5 | After this , pentagastrin ( 6 µg/kg ) was administered subcutaneously and gastric juice was collected for a further 60 minutes for estimation of maximal and peak acid output . |
| 6 | No price was given for the newer M-16 on the wall . |
| 7 | One locomotive was adapted for the wider gauge and two further locomotives were later transferred , one from Hilton 's works at Halling , the other from Frindsbury . |
| 8 | The meal was given with an additional volume of 500 ml water and imaging was continued for a further 40 minutes after the meal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 11 | After injection , bile was collected for a further three house . |
| 12 | After a two minute exposure to acid , the perfusion was resumed for a further 90 minute period . |
| 13 | It looked as though Hereford 's away form was changing for the better on Saturday when they drew at Mansfield , but last night an attacking display by struggling Doncaster had them on the retreat again . |
| 14 | Trial was fixed for a later date . |
| 15 | The tank was left for a further two weeks , during which regular checks were made on the quality of the water . |
| 16 | The ban on political activity imposed when the NRM came to power was extended for a further five years in March 1990 . |
| 17 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |