Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] were [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 2 | At the end of February , supported by many of the intelligentsia , workers in Petrograd and Moscow were incited to riot for better food rations . |
| 3 | ( Age and sex were included to account for the changing age and sex structures of the populations between the censuses . ) |
| 4 | Men and boys were sent to look for him , the ponds and the river were dragged , and by morning hopes of finding him alive had almost been given up . |
| 5 | Libya 's transport links by sea and land were reinforced to compensate for the lack of international flights . |