Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I produced sketches and a clay model for ideas , but these were eventually only used for reference when working on the sculpture . |
| 2 | There is also a suggestion that in Britain the elaborate chambered tombs and long barrows , and such structures as Newgrange in Ireland , were not just used for burial but for other purposes as well . |
| 3 | On this larger canvas uncertainties abound , and there is scope for contributions from changes in the Australian way of life that were not primarily adopted for health reasons . |
| 4 | We consider what old fishing boats , and even vessels that were not specially made for fishing , can be adapted and sent to fish for a year or two . |
| 5 | We estimate that 13206 ( 12% ) of the 114362 women were delivered at hospitals where they were not initially booked for delivery ( table I ) . |
| 6 | These were sometimes directly discounted for coin or notes but , as we have seen , were increasingly sent on to the London agent for collection . |
| 7 | From March 1 , roubles were no longer accepted for cash transactions in the state sector , being replaced by coupons or transactions in rouble bank accounts . |
| 8 | Grundrisse consists of a series of notebooks which were never finally prepared for publication and are therefore somewhat untidy and unsystematic . |
| 9 | Instead , Willis found that his lads were very well prepared for work in factories where they could use the same ‘ survival ’ techniques as they had learned at school . |