Example sentences of "was [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 2 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 3 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 4 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 5 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 6 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 7 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 8 | On Sept. 27 a new coalition administration was formed for the Basque region , under the leadership of José Antonio Ardanza of the Basque National Party ( PNV ) as President ( lehendakari ) . |
| 9 | A verdict was given against a Liverpool Constable by a jury … in a case in which Mrs Jane Roche , wife of a bookmaker , claimed damages from Sergt. John Borrows ( who was dismissed for the malicious prosecution claim ) and Constable Ernest David Laurie of the Liverpool Police … |
| 10 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 11 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 12 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 13 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 14 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 15 | No availability date was given for the new release . |
| 16 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 17 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 18 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 19 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 20 | A date was arranged for the following week for both events and I agreed to go with them . |
| 21 | This was the end of the first visit and a date , 10 days away , was arranged for the next visit . |
| 22 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
| 23 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 24 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 25 | As we have seen , Lord Greene M.R. 's meaning of unreasonable was developed for the judicial review of discretionary power . |
| 26 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |
| 27 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 28 | The role of government , they believed , was to provide for the unhelpable residuum . |
| 29 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 30 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |