Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer he was stopped by the police for overloading his builder 's van . |
| 2 | After the tour , Manly was joined in the chase for Ofahengaue 's signature by St. George . |
| 3 | Ten minutes later he was joined by the couple for whom he had been waiting . |
| 4 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 5 | The time course of the study protocol ( Fig 1 ) indicates when ulcer healing was confirmed or when the patient was withdrawn from the protocol for other reasons . |
| 6 | Once , after a long negotiation , Swire invited Bevin for a drink and a sandwich at the City of London Club , and was reprimanded by the chairman for having brought ‘ a working man into the club ’ . |
| 7 | Then the original examining magistrate was dismissed from the case for making such a muddle of it . |
| 8 | Five minutes later , Thame centre half , Edwards , was dismissed from the field for aiming a punch at Tony Penge ; this made Thame 's task even harder especially when Penge scored two minutes later from close range to make it two nil . |
| 9 | But strangely , nothing further was heard of the islands for several hundred years until the famous Dutch explorer Willem Barents rediscovered Svalbard in 1596 . |
| 10 | Since the 1949 service , when Latin was heard in the Church for probably the first time since the Reformation , the Founder 's Psalm ( no. 130 ) has been chanted : |
| 11 | The unstable situation in Georgia , the main transport route to Armenia since Azerbaijan 's economic blockade of Armenia in November 1991 , was given as the reason for the appeal , which was also seen as a veiled challenge to Turkey to prove its neutrality in the conflict . |
| 12 | The Green spot Environmental Award was given to the company for providing a bottle bank , now standing in the Johnstone Co-op Car Park , with proceeds from the sale of glass being sent to the St Vincent de Paul Hospice , Johnstone . |
| 13 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 14 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 15 | The seat was given to the school for a Mr headmaster and as a gesture of goodwill to all who pass the school . |
| 16 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 17 | The urgency which at this stage was given to the need for a new War Department building was a direct aftermath of the Crimean War . |
| 18 | The emphasis here was placed on the need for a thorough self-appraisal of this issue before an outsider could make any assessment . |
| 19 | In Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [ 1992 ] 1 AC 310 the relevant principles for determination of who can claim damages for nervous shock were reconsidered and emphasis was placed on the need for a plaintiff to demonstrate particular ties of love and affection with the injured victim . |
| 20 | He was always ready to flout the company 's regulations , failing to register two alternative versions of his new sterling ( Britannia ) mark , and was criticized by the company for failing to submit plate for assay and hallmarking in 1717 . |
| 21 | It is fortunate , however , that a thorough monitoring of the scheme , funded by the DoE , was undertaken by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol . |
| 22 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 23 | It seems likely that a forty-foot width was regarded as the minimum for an unsurfaced road , allowing for detours as the winter went on , but when scientific roadmaking began these great widths were no longer necessary . |
| 24 | On that occasion , the inspectors ' report was handed to the press at the same time as it was referred to the DPP for possible criminal proceedings . |
| 25 | George was referred to the LEA for formal assessment under the Act on the grounds of emotional and behavioural difficulties as an ‘ urgent case ’ . |
| 26 | Mrs Fellows was referred to the physiotherapist for teaching and practice of leg exercises before the operation . |
| 27 | Mrs J. was referred by the GP for respite care . |
| 28 | On three occasions he was referred by the court for a psychiatric report on account of his oddness , lack of sociability , occasional outbursts of violence and a suspicion that he was taking illegal drugs . |
| 29 | ‘ Piss off , Clasper , you 've had your day ! ’ yelled a burly figure at the back of the crowd , who was cheered to the echo for his advice . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s that tradition was broken by the need for new guards in combination with the growing unemployment rate . |