Example sentences of "was [vb pp] out for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 2 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 3 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 4 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 5 | And when Phil Newport was run out for seven Worcestershire were well down the road to their 90 all out — extras top score of twenty one — and it was still half an hour to lunch . |
| 6 | The match was put out for new offers and Kasparov is due to make an announcement in London on March 22 . |
| 7 | Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment . |
| 8 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |