Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that the Danakil attached to this practice , rating as they did a man 's prowess by the number of his kills ; many raids were undertaken principally for this purpose . |
| 2 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 3 | Great collections were formed primarily for personal enjoyment . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan . |
| 5 | After 5 washes in PBS , positive colonies ( heavily coated with paramagnetic beads ) were easily identified and were transferred individually for further growth and harvest of cell supernatants . |
| 6 | New Oxford Street and Victoria Street in central London were built partly for this purpose . |
| 7 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 8 | While the canal boatmen were away without their families the women who remained were drawn together for mutual support . |
| 9 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 10 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 11 | Hair was then set on rollers and dressed to achieve height on the crown and pieces were brought down for added softness . |
| 12 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 13 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 14 | Traditionally , these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting . |
| 15 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 16 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 17 | Kurecolor brush pens were tried out for on-the-spot sketching . |
| 18 | The rats were bred specifically for this study and the parents of experimental animals were fed the appropriate diet for one month before mating . |
| 19 | Christian and Chelsea were allowed home for New Year but Andrew , who has had five heart murmurs , was released just a few days ago . |
| 20 | Fifteen minutes were put aside for this activity and over twenty-five suggestions were recorded , although some were overlapping . |
| 21 | Hayling added to the confusion by taking away applications from blacks , which were put aside for positive consideration . |
| 22 | As a result of workshops at a Westminster conference ( described in Chapter 2 ) , wide-ranging recommendations for bureau development were put together for further assessment and implementation . |
| 23 | Miles and Bell , along with Andy Gregory , were signalled out for special praise by Monie , who was gaining his eighth major trophy in under three seasons at the club . |
| 24 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 25 | In some cases , organisationally distinct units were created especially for this purpose . |
| 26 | The cells were agitated gently for one hour in the absence/presence histamine . |
| 27 | Some were sent especially for this purpose but they were also an important means of communication and often the back of the postcard is as interesting as the front . |
| 28 | The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct . |
| 29 | As blood lipid concentrations change with age and sex , the values were analysed separately for each sex . |
| 30 | Others were purchased cheaply for agricultural use by villagers who were willing to do without the sale vouchers which were sometimes required by the government . |