Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the pitch they were easy targets for unscrupulous defenders and were frequently cautioned for retaliatory violence . |
| 2 | These stones were even harder than Millstone Grit , and were often used for grinding wheat , while the Derbyshire stone was retained for oats and barley . |
| 3 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 4 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 5 | He had no outstanding gifts , of intelligence , learning , or good looks , and was never employed for any important administrative , political , or diplomatic office . |
| 6 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 7 | Yasmin said she 'd had enough and was now looking for full-time modelling work . |
| 8 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 9 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 10 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 11 | This was recognized by parliament in 1944 ( Dent , 1944 ) but was largely forgotten for two decades as subsequent Secretaries of State avoided its use ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , Davis 1980 ; Salter and Tapper , 1981 ; Raggatt and Weiner , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | A national constitutional conference opened in Kinshasa on July 31 but was immediately suspended for one week after opposition delegates complained that rural areas were inadequately represented . |