Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although leave was given for the service of the writ , Scott J. was unwilling to allow the Anton Piller order to be served ( and immediately executed ) at the same time . |
| 2 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 3 | If therapy was needed for the child , they wanted to share in the offering of help and particularly valued taking part with the workers in life-story work . |
| 4 | Aristide , in turn , had assured the OAS that he was willing to find a " national solution " to the crisis , one which would safeguard the rights of all sections of society , if respect were shown for the Constitution and if his presidency were recognised . |
| 5 | However the bad news is that because Rocky was dropped for the game ( not even on the bench ) he ‘ walked out ’ of the club on Friday night . |
| 6 | SIR , — Most commentators would describe ‘ life-terminating acts without explicit request of patient ’ ( LAWER ) as non-voluntary euthanasia but the Dutch do not because euthanasia was defined for the Remmelink report only as ‘ intentionally taking the life of a person upon his or her explicit request by someone else than the person concerned ’ . |
| 7 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 8 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 9 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 10 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 11 | Mr Milburn , whose comments have been supported by consultant Sheila Shearson , said Darlington had been without a fulltime accident and emergency consultant even though money was allocated for the post two years ago . |
| 12 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 13 | However , when ballets were performed for the public , professional dancers took the place of courtiers and technical innovations had to be made . |
| 14 | A spokesman said no transfusion was risk-free , even though blood was tested for the Aids virus . |
| 15 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
| 16 | This was achieved when Russia was rewarded for the benevolent neutrality she had maintained while Prussia redrew the map of central Europe : in 1870 she was able to renounce the clauses without risking diplomatic isolation . |
| 17 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
| 18 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 19 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 20 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 21 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 22 | But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 . |