Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A card was passed around for those present to send their good wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 2 | Elongation of the transcript was carried out for 1,5 or 15 min , and was initiated by adjusting conditions to 2 mM of all four nucleotides and 400 mM KCl . |
| 3 | ROD LATHAM was run out for 119 as New Zealand finished on 325–3 after the second day of their rain-affected First Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 4 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 5 | The match was put out for new offers and Kasparov is due to make an announcement in London on March 22 . |
| 6 | Puddle was run out for 97 after figuring in a third wicket stand of 181 with opener Andrew Harris which provided the platform for Wales 's impressive success . |
| 7 | The Yard said the area around the police station was sealed off for half an hour while the package was examined . |
| 8 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 9 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 10 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |
| 11 | Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes . |
| 12 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 13 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 14 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 15 | The original base mapping was carried out for most of Scotland between 1865 and the start of the First World War . |
| 16 | Accepting the logic of this situation the matter was held over for further review at a later Department Head meeting . |
| 17 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |
| 18 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 19 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 20 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 21 | The narrowing down of this primitive trade-route took place , perhaps in stages , in Saxon and early medieval times as more and more land was taken in for arable cultivation . |
| 22 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 23 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the Department of the Environment said : ‘ The contract was put out for tender locally by the Roads Service and was awarded to Safeall for three years . ’ |
| 25 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |
| 26 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 27 | The kick-off was put off for 15 minutes because there were long queues outside . |
| 28 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |
| 29 | The leading bunch was led in for second place by Jacek Mickiewicz of Poland with another Australian , Grant Rice , third . |