Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 2 | The new bus garage at Thornton Heath was sufficiently advanced in construction for the bus service to start from there the next morning , using London Transport 's then standard RT type buses . |
| 3 | Such a view is found in partial form in Calvin , and it surfaces again in the nineteenth century in the thought of both Edward Irving ( who was wrongly convicted for heresy for believing it ) and the great Anglican churchman , F. D. Maurice ( 1805–1872 ) . |
| 4 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |
| 5 | Robert , gasping for breath in his arms , wondered whether Mr Malik 's request for him to give an account of himself was entirely motivated by concern for his staff . |
| 6 | Captivated by Christ and his love she ‘ was greatly moved with love for my fellow Christians that they might know and see what I was seeing , for I wanted to cheer them too ’ . |
| 7 | A person was only detained pending trial for a capital crime , or while awaiting verification of sentence . |
| 8 | The forthcoming tour is their first since a Summer which was literally crammed with shows for The Fat Lady Sings . |
| 9 | Furthermore , whatever Kennedy 's disappointment over the lukewarm support from London , he was soon turning to Macmillan for advice and help on other questions . |
| 10 | Being closer to the industry 's own thinking , for example , the Electricity Division was soon pressing within Whitehall for higher capital investment allocations for electricity both against the other fuel divisions in the Ministry and against the Treasury . |
| 11 | Informed opinion considered that care was best provided in hospitals for the mentally ill ( the old lunatic asylums ) and institutions or colonies for the subnormal . |
| 12 | The fact that Winston Churchill knew that Rudolf Hess was coming was finally confirmed beyond doubt for Edward Carrington when he heard how Hamilton had been received . |
| 13 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 14 | The administration was desperately overloaded with applications for import licences . |
| 15 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 16 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |
| 17 | American Cook , who was just caught by Faldo for the Open at Muirfield , finished with a bogey to wreck his chances . |
| 18 | Legitimation for such delegated enforcement was usually sought through schemes for participation , such as industrial democracy , regional devolution or community action . |
| 19 | Oktay Oczelebi , 28 , was yesterday jailed for life for the murder of Feriha Apa , 48 , at her home in Wood Green , north London . |
| 20 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne was yesterday jailed for life for bludgeoning his brother to death . |
| 21 | A HOTELIER was yesterday jailed for life for the murder of his wife Monica , who disappeared nearly 11 years ago . |
| 22 | No one was ever left in Masailand for so long again . |
| 23 | None was ever brought to trial for war crimes . |
| 24 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 25 | He was once accused of racism for saying the claims of some Tamils seeking asylum were ‘ manifestly bogus . ’ |
| 26 | Kyphi was always burnt after sunset for its effects were soporific and intoxicating . |
| 27 | Since we had found that the analysis was hardly affected by adjustment for sexual risk factors we performed a non-adjusted analysis on the entire group of 181 women . |
| 28 | The newly constructed R38 , the largest airship yet built , had been sold to the USA in 1919 , but was still based in Howden for training and trials . |
| 29 | Thus Beveridge had assumed that the elimination of poverty was integrally linked to policies for health , education , housing and town planning , and full employment . |
| 30 | Timber was urgently needed in England for ship building , house construction , charcoal … |