Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predominance of Latin in this sample reflects the fact that many letters were addressed to bishops , and that Latin was used for the more solemn and formal instruments emanating from her chancery . |
| 2 | Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force . |
| 3 | He told the jury : ‘ This courtroom was used for the trial of Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady . |
| 4 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 5 | This criterion was introduced for the benefit of an authority like Kirklees which runs the large institution of Huddersfield Polytechnic but which has a limited population and therefore a relatively small rate basis . |
| 6 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 7 | Jaq imagined arcane astromantic calculations and perversions of Tarot divination — conducted by Carnelian , the Tarot-sneak ? — before this planet was chosen for the first emergence of the entity . |
| 8 | This sample was provided for the project by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and was in turn drawn from a larger sample of 500 households which the Executive had used for their own survey of housing patterns in the city ( cf. |
| 9 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 10 | The final act of this Keele was to ballot for the sessions for Keele 1994 . |
| 11 | This system was written for the purpose of understanding travel-expense reports . |
| 12 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 13 | The annual incidence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease in this region was estimated for the years 1962 to 1978 and the prevalences on 31 December 1978 were calculated . |
| 14 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 15 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 16 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 17 | But the benefits of such progress were reserved for the white-skinned Christian Europeans . |
| 18 | Given the triumph of fundamentalist Islam in Iran and the strength of similar forces in Afghanistan , many who saw no justification for Soviet intervention in law in 1979 could see one on grounds of ‘ national security ’ : much as such justifications were offered for the flagrantly illegal annexations of western Poland , the Baltic republics , Bessarabia , northern Bukovina and parts of Finnish territory in 1939–40 . |
| 19 | On March 28 such flights were resumed for the first time since the outbreak of war in the Gulf . |
| 20 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 21 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 22 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |
| 23 | In the recent past , many thousands of these animals were exported for the pet trade . |
| 24 | Not all of either circumstance was required for the effect , given that the other whole circumstance existed . |
| 25 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 26 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
| 27 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 28 | These raids were planned for the night of 14 December . |
| 29 | The medical records of all cases were reviewed for the following eight clinical features : sex , age at onset of colitis , age at colectomy , indications for colectomy , age at time of pouch construction , extraintestinal manifestations before colectomy , use of steroids before colectomy , and immediate postcolectomy complications . |
| 30 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |