Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 14 | But the benefits of such progress were reserved for the white-skinned Christian Europeans . |
| 15 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 16 | Not all of either circumstance was required for the effect , given that the other whole circumstance existed . |
| 17 | More help was provided for the farmer , and particularly for the rural poor . |
| 18 | More power was needed for the 1933 race season , so the R-1 had a 900hp Hornet fitted , and the R-2 took over the R-1 's Wasp . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 21 | The same method was applied for the ends of the coach and the partitions . |
| 22 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 23 | Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy . |
| 24 | Each client was rated for the twenty ‘ primary need states ’ . |
| 25 | Most consternation was reserved for the prospect that the Japanese will probably get there first . |