Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals must be made to the centre where the student was enrolled to study for the programme ; each centre will deal with the case in accordance with its appeals procedure . |
| 2 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 3 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 4 | In the order of succession , the president of the Senate was empowered to substitute for the President during a temporary absence if the Vice-President was also absent . |
| 5 | After careful consideration , Fred Dunston explained the intolerable conditions to those concerned and it was decided to arrange for the return of the children to Bydown . |
| 6 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 7 | JUNE 20 : Today I was selected to play for the village . |
| 8 | Katya had been moved into a small room near the kitchens , which she shared with Esmereldi , and she was told to cook for the soldiers . |
| 9 | Mixed model analysis of variance was used to test for the effects of intervention . |
| 10 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if the member of parliament was induced to solicit for the removal of an acting officer , any failure to arrange the question satisfactorily would be taken in his constituency as a failure of political interest in London and evidence of a lack of effective power , which again could prove damaging at the next general election . |
| 12 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 13 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 14 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 15 | They supposed that one sex was going to care for the eggs , but that selection on both sexes would make them , if possible , desert the eggs and thus force the other sex into doing the work . |
| 16 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 17 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 18 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 19 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 20 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 21 | Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op . |
| 22 | He had already won the Forte PGA Seniors ' two years in a row and was aiming to qualify for the US Senior Tour last year . |
| 23 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 24 | This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC . |
| 25 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 26 | As the ideology of motherhood strengthened during the early twentieth century in response to the high infant mortality rate and the implications it was feared to have for the health and welfare of an imperial nation , so the pressures exerted on working class mothers increased . |
| 27 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 28 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 29 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 30 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |