Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 2 | Another generation of Labour leaders , in the 1960s , were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning . |
| 3 | Alan Taylor from Torness and John Logie from Peel Park were both selected to ride for the Scottish team in the four-way international match races against England , Wales and Ireland . |
| 4 | While Archbishop Reynolds and some other bishops and royal clerks colluded with the king , the lower clergy presented stout resistance , precisely as they had done in 1294 when they were also invited to pay for the tune played by the prelates . |
| 5 | Gastric antral biopsy specimens were also taken to check for the presence of H pylori by histology ( 2 specimens ) and culture ( 1 specimen ) , as previously described . |
| 6 | They were n't going to settle for the one goal . |