Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Internationally , the data protection principles were adopted as the basis for the 1980 OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data . |
| 2 | Beginning in early 1988 a second phase was begun , and remotely-sensed data were selected as the source for databases on global forest resources and land degradation ( Aronoff , 1989 ; Mooneyhan , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Even this product of genius was flawed as it trailed away into melodrama but for a fleeting moment Hollywood was shown what could be achieved if its resources were used as the basis for a director 's cinema . |
| 4 | Similar , though somewhat less extreme difficulties would ensue if the normal range of penalties applied by Crown Courts were used as the basis for the guide-lines . |
| 5 | The promise of security and the expectation that wages would rise with promotion and seniority were offered as the reward for sacrificing the ability to move easily between employers . |
| 6 | This huge fourfold piece of political iconography , comparable as imperial propaganda to the Great Exhibition in London of 1851 , was executed we should remember by a single hand and was therefore surely centrally commissioned ; but it is equally significant of the proud standing of the demes that they were chosen as the vehicle for this glorious Attica-wide religious boasting . |