Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Communist regimes which tried to ban religion were known for their cruelty . |
| 2 | The grounds of Midway Manor were transformed for the evening , with a candlelit drive leading guests up to the manor house where hot air balloons offered rides above the parkland . |
| 3 | Shortly after the Jan. 28 demonstrations began at noon , leaders of the three parties behind the anti-NSF demonstration were summoned for urgent talks at the NSF headquarters . |
| 4 | Demonstration were called for March 9 in Belgrade by opposition groups led by Vuk Draskovic , the chairman of the Serbian Renaissance Movement which opposed Milosevic 's confrontational policies toward non-communist organisations . |
| 5 | Her name was derived from ‘ diviana ’ ( the shining one ) , and glittering shrines of gold and silver were made for her temple at Ephesus . |
| 6 | The liver appeared normal but access to the portal vein was difficult so the infrarenal inferior vena cava and aorta were prepared for anastomosis . |
| 7 | England in reply were dismissed for 454 , with Les Ames ( 137 ) and ‘ Gubby ’ Allen ( 122 ) putting on an eighth-wicket partnership of 246 , which still stands as a Test record for that wicket . |
| 8 | Competitors who converged on the Southlands Centre from all over the North-East were playing for places in the national finals in Reading in August . |
| 9 | After preoperative screening , 99 patients ( 88% ) with an adenocarcinoma in columnar lined oesophagus were considered for surgical treatment . |
| 10 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 11 | The next Saturday , armed with my pocket money , I waited for about an hour before the cheap-jack came to the knives , which after a lot of spiel were offered for sixpence — all I possessed . |
| 12 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 13 | Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field . |
| 14 | Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field . |
| 15 | Annual referral rates for each practice were standardised for age and sex by the direct method using the total study population as the standard . |
| 16 | Over the past three years 55 patients with symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction were recruited for two clinical trials . |
| 17 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 18 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 19 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 20 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 21 | Turf and peat could be cut and dried for fuel and building materials , rough wood was used for firewood and construction , and reeds , rushes and bracken were gathered for bedding , roofing , flooring and building . |
| 22 | When unpicking a garment the lengths of thread or cotton were saved for mending and tacking . |
| 23 | Analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) and Student 's two tailed t test were applied for comparing differences between groups in continuous variables , and the Mann-Whitney U test for comparing medians . |
| 24 | The sensitivity , specificity , and efficiency of the sweat spot test were calculated for both the sweat spot test score and the percentage number of abnormal subareas , and receiver operating characteristic curves were drawn for both parameters . |
| 25 | The Mann-Whitney U rank sum test and Spearman rank correlation test were used for statistical evaluation . |
| 26 | The Kruskal-Wallis and the two tailed Mann-Whitney U test were used for comparison between groups . |
| 27 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 28 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 29 | Excision biopsy and histology were considered for naevi showing change or new naevi not present at the time of the previous photographic session . |
| 30 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |