Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 2 | The militants were publicizing demands for political status to be conferred on their imprisoned leader Patricio Baquerizo whom they wanted released . |
| 3 | ‘ They were producing plans for expansion , Ed said . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 5 | However , if GPs were given budgets for the whole range of patient care for their patients , various problems could arise including incentives to undersupply , especially if GPs were permitted to retain budgetary savings . |
| 6 | The patients were given supplementation for one month and colonic biopsy specimens were taken before and at the end of the trial . |
| 7 | Unprinted goods were given exemptions for the sake of the English textile printing industry , fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands , and the re-export trade to the rest of the world was unaffected , so Indian exports rose steadily . |
| 8 | In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education . |
| 9 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 10 | So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses . |
| 11 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |
| 12 | They were given ethanol for an hour prior to a blade being inserted into their right cortex . |
| 13 | Even Paddington 's platform ends were given supports for overhead electrification when the Lawn was extended to accommodate a shopping centre , leaving Marylebone as the only other London terminus yet to see electric activity . |
| 14 | Information on crofting income is limited , but we were given data for two examples , which we were warned are not typical . |
| 15 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 16 | The former soldiers were demanding payment for taking early retirement under Chamorro 's plan which drastically reduced the size of the army . |
| 17 | Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ . |
| 18 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 19 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 20 | A further 2 were finalising preparations for publishing their policies . |
| 21 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 22 | Two of the three daughters of William Charles were to find husbands for themselves . |
| 23 | Just back from the South of France , Andrew thought jealously — together with York or Doncaster , such jaunts were forbidden pleasures for him , especially now that this new incubus had been fathered on him , all three were beyond possibility . |
| 24 | The crisis-hit jewellery firm were fined £1,000 for false labelling — and asked for time to pay . |
| 25 | The angry group of minority shareholders will even risk Barnet folding in an effort to unseat Flashman , whose undignified brawling blackened further the day his club were fined £50,000 for irregular payments . |
| 26 | Flashman missed the troubled Third Division club 's FA Cup defeat by Bournemouth with a bad back — the result of his alleged assault on a photographer when the club were fined £50,000 for financial irregularities . |
| 27 | Paul Ince and Mark Ward both left the club , the former Celtic player Frank McAvennie was fined £6,000 for an alleged fracas with the team 's commercial manager , and the club were fined £20,000 for pitch disturbances during a Littlewoods Cup tie against Wimbledon . |
| 28 | Still driven by the storm they were carried west for some hours into another narrow passage , though now the current had reversed , so what appeared to be a great ebb-tide came rushing towards them . |
| 29 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 30 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |