Example sentences of "was [verb] for the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |
| 2 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 3 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 4 | Its cost was £5,000 per car and was destined for the twelve sun saloons and six of the 1937 railcoaches , although these never materialised . |
| 5 | Here again the core of the work probably dates from some time before ( late 1745 ) and was expanded for the 1747 event . |
| 6 | But that was in 1976 , a black year for British sprinting when no one was selected for the 100 metres at the Montreal Olympics . |
| 7 | And if the theatre score really was copied for the 1693 revival , why , when it subsequently disappeared , was the company forced to advertise for its return , and unable to revive the work when it failed to turn up ? |
| 8 | More power was needed for the 1933 race season , so the R-1 had a 900hp Hornet fitted , and the R-2 took over the R-1 's Wasp . |
| 9 | The station for the new age was Victor Laloux 's Gare d'Orsay in Paris , whose opening was timed for the 1900 Paris Exposition . |
| 10 | An overall value of basal UOS pressure was derived for the six seconds before and up to six seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode by averaging the individual two second values . |
| 11 | In response to this tuition in examination techniques was introduced for the 1981 cohort and the statistical difference between matriculated and non matriculated students was eliminated . |
| 12 | But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era . |
| 13 | A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level . |
| 14 | Susanne Albrecht , who was wanted for the 1977 murder of the banker Jürgen Ponto , and Inge Viett , wanted for the 1974 murder of the judge Günter von Drenkmann , were arrested on June 6 in East Berlin , and on June 14 Werner Lotze , Monika Helbing , Ekkehard von Seckendorff-Gudent and Christine Dümlein ( all wanted in connection with other attacks ) were also held , as was Sigrid Sternebeck on June 15 . |
| 15 | A shortfall of over 300,000 tonnes of rice was projected for the 1990/91 harvest , a result in part of drought and flooding , but also because of the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity . |
| 16 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 17 | A special committee was created for the 1907 Congress , and the irrepressible Van Kol again proposed a ‘ positive colonial policy ’ , affirming that ‘ under a socialist regime , colonization can be a work of civilization ’ . |
| 18 | A reorganization committee was established for the thirty-nine wards of the three hospitals . |
| 19 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 20 | The next upset came when he was chosen for the 1948–9 tour of India but asked , as a professional , to be paid £250 ; the WICBC refused , Worrell declined to back down , and he did not go . |
| 21 | He was chosen for the 1928–29 tour of Australia , but rheumatism forced him to return home before he had played a match . |
| 22 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |