Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The patients were given supplementation for one month and colonic biopsy specimens were taken before and at the end of the trial . |
| 4 | In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were given ethanol for an hour prior to a blade being inserted into their right cortex . |
| 8 | The former soldiers were demanding payment for taking early retirement under Chamorro 's plan which drastically reduced the size of the army . |
| 9 | Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ . |
| 10 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 11 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Two of the rigs were to provide transport for the ordinary sect members , after their release . |
| 15 | These issues were due to be investigated at a second trial , to start on Jan. 14 , 1991 , when the senior financiers Roger Seeling , David Mayhew and Lord Spens were to stand trial for accepting the money . |
| 16 | In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination . |
| 17 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 18 | Pharmacists say that they were promised payment for the service . |
| 19 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 20 | They were compiling information for a guide to the Great British pub-goer . |
| 21 | Then at the end of the quarter you were getting dividend for twenty people . |
| 22 | This will act as a yardstick by which industry and local authorities could check they were getting value for money , he said . |
| 23 | And at the end of the day you would be into relating what people do in their job descriptions to whether you were getting value for money from those members of staff . |
| 24 | Members of suitable quality were needed , but members must feel that they were getting value for money . |
| 25 | We were expected to put our hands in our pockets and shell out regardless of whether or not we were getting value for money . |
| 26 | Though it would certainly be in keeping with his media image if he were to use Seawitch for what the tabloids liked to call a ‘ love nest ’ . |
| 27 | As far as could be foreseen , they were to retain responsibility for the nuclear deterrent after ballistic missiles had taken over from manned bombers . |
| 28 | It would be solved at once if we were to abandon faith for something more solid which can be known . |
| 29 | Fortunately , his fame had not yet reached the gutters so the winos were not aware that they were providing material for a movie star 's performance . |
| 30 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |