Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She declined to be interviewed for this article , saying that her role as a musician is more important than the fact she 's a woman . |
| 2 | ‘ It started to be used for this purpose two years ago . |
| 3 | The buildings continued to be used for this purpose until the mid-1980s when an enterprising manager of a local farm realised that something could be done to salvage the structures for a more profitable use . |
| 4 | That is , every word in the million-word corpus was assigned a tag indicating its grammatical category , and complex computer programs had to be written for this purpose . |
| 5 | It was a pity that such a disagreeable man had to be thanked for this . |
| 6 | An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence . |
| 7 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |