Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 4 | Tithes of reed were reserved for the local priest on the Somerset Levels , and Chaucer 's monk cast an entirely practical eye on the local birdlife : ‘ he liked a swan best , and roasted whole . ’ |
| 5 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 6 | Similar results to those shown in the example were achieved for the other estate agents sentences tested using this simple analyser . |
| 7 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 8 | Some without experience of validation were praised for the high standard and clarify of their documentation . |
| 9 | But the benefits of such progress were reserved for the white-skinned Christian Europeans . |
| 10 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 11 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 12 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 13 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 14 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 15 | Those assigned to surgery were scheduled for the next available or convenient operating list . |
| 16 | The serum samples from patients with high cytotoxic activity were used for the subsequent ADCC assay . |
| 17 | The Serbian Foreign Minister and Montenegrin Interior Minister were nominated for the corresponding federal posts . |
| 18 | Similar results were obtained when cDNAs from mouse , rat , and dog muscle were amplified for the complete α subunit by using a different set of primers ( data not shown ) . |
| 19 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |