Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact .
2 Or was prepared for .
3 And she neither volunteered nor was asked for any new statement of intent about how soon the British would agree to sterling joining the fixed exchange rate regime of the European Monetary System .
4 Mixtures of thymocytes and stromal cells rapidly reform ( within 12 hours ) into intact thymus lobes and were analysed for T-cell development in terms of lymphoid content and TCR , CD4 and CD8 expression after 9 days in culture ( Fig.2 ) .
5 Portions of the supernatants were evaporated in a vacuum oven at 40°C , dissolved in 0.05 mol/l sodium acetate buffer ( pH 6.2 ) , and were analysed for cyclic AMP by using an acetylated [ 1 2 5 I ] radioimmunoassay procedure ( New England Nuclear kit ) .
6 Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment .
7 The DJs heard six songs and were asked for advice on the first single .
8 The managers had their height , weight , blood pressure , flexibility , stamina and lung capacity measured and were asked for details of their lifestyle .
9 The course organisers were informed about the study and its objectives and were asked for their cooperation in data collection .
10 At home , the cows were managed by the women , who hand-milked them and ensured that they continued to yield plenty of good quality milk and were selected for being docile and good-tempered .
11 ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel .
12 Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method .
13 The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose .
14 In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes .
15 In 1877 they republished Knowlton 's old pamphlet The Fruits of Philosophy and were prosecuted for obscenity — in the end unsuccessfully .
16 ‘ There is a feeling of deliverance within me and it is as if she and I had stopped being two , and were united for ever and ever . ’
17 Many of those first placed in charge of rural posts proved unsuitable , and were dismissed for abuse of power .
18 Here a small group of Jewish boys were given a home and were trained for careers in leather manufacture , cabinet-making , and engineering .
19 Adverse events were noted a at each installation of B G C and at the time of the first cystoscopy and were scored for severity and the highest score was then re recorded and appears on this erm histogram which relates to frequency as a symptom .
20 Periodically revised and completed , these ‘ rules and regulations ’ bore the imprint of the administrative tradition that had hitherto governed broadcasting , and were criticized for their formalism — and insufficient recognition of the realities of broadcasting .
21 Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before .
22 Patients requiring more than 10 units of blood on a single admission were defined as failures of sclerotherapy and were referred for surgery — the type of operation being left to the discretion of the clinician involved .
23 Dublin was the focal point of a Cambridge side who played the ball long , got it forward quickly and were condemned for their tactics .
24 The boys contributing to the uproar did so as well , and were rewarded for any unusually telling stroke of humour ( within the tradition-bound schoolboy framework ) by a smirk of appreciation .
25 Silver and gold are rare and were prized for their monetary value , appearance and resistance to corrosion .
26 At an earlier trial , Dennison and Stuart Warne — the main link between the drug-dealers and the Ulstermen — both admitted conspiracy to murder and drugs charges and were jailed for life .
27 Five patients had experienced symptoms suggestive of cow 's milk allergy ( urticaria ( one ) , loose stools ( one ) , vomiting ( two ) , diarrhoea ( one ) ) and were admitted for diagnostic milk challenge after four weeks ' milk elimination .
28 The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies .
29 Packages in the existing topic areas ( practice management , project management , contract procedures , building law , and legal and insurance issues ) continued to sell and were used for both personal and practice CPD .
30 Partially purified extracts of bacterially expressed VT2 and VT2X were obtained by ammonium sulphate precipitation ( Figure 2 ) and were used for all subsequent DNA binding analyses .
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