Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 2 | The Belfast methods , on the other hand , were developed primarily for the study of closeknit communities — and indeed it is likely that they are particularly and rather generally suitable for urban or rural communities of this type . |
| 3 | Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 4 | It is also true , of course , that these doctors ' free services were given partly for research and clinical experience , partly from strictly charitable motives and partly to establish marketable reputations in the private sector of pre-NHS British medicine . |
| 5 | But the centres which were the linchpin of the movement were criticized both for erring too much on the side of prevention — tackling such issues as racism , poverty and education in the communities served , and for doing too little prevention , this arising from the affiliation of most of them to general and mental hospitals . |
| 6 | It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that the Danakil attached to this practice , rating as they did a man 's prowess by the number of his kills ; many raids were undertaken principally for this purpose . |
| 7 | The ingredients were gathered together for me by Lord Wittisham , the kidneys themselves prepared by Mr Pegg , and I attended to the final cooking and preparation of the sauce . ’ |
| 8 | A VET from Stockton , firemen and an RSPCA inspector were honoured yesterday for rescuing a pony trapped after it slipped down a drain . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , the party meeting were to go well for him , it would be a helpful antidote to a bad by-election . |
| 10 | Great collections were formed primarily for personal enjoyment . |
| 11 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 13 | Confirmation of the deal , the terms of which were adjusted marginally for exchange rate movements since a letter of intent was signed in July , coincided with the release of Nu-Swift 's interim figures revealing pre-tax profits of £16.4m ( £15.5m ) and earnings per share of 19.78p ( 18.73p ) . |
| 14 | Crowe 's 107 gave the visitors faint hopes of saving the match after they were dismissed earlier for 102 , their lowest first innings total against Sri Lanka . |
| 15 | Many of these works were intended primarily for other experts in the field and attracted little popular attention . |
| 16 | Managers get the blame EDUCATION managers in County Durham were blamed yesterday for keeping money away from the schools which need it most . |
| 17 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 18 | He made films that were designed basically for the drive-in movie , to be glimpsed between clinches . |
| 19 | The manufacturers of the robot arm have not advertised in the hobby electronics press for a long time and a disadvantage of their interface was that both software and hardware were designed specifically for the BBC computer . |
| 20 | Vaccinations were recommended only for people at special risk . |
| 21 | Vaccinations were recommended only for people at special risk . |
| 22 | ‘ That gives us the initial impression that the explosion was of an accidental nature rather than a purposeful one , although there can be no doubt that the explosives were stockpiled there for killing people , ’ the officer said . |
| 23 | The recent calculations were done only for the collision of an electron and a positron , a collision common in particle accelerators . |
| 24 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 25 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 26 | The dedicated comic fan may argue that most publications mentioned so far were written mostly for males — what about comics written specifically for females ? |
| 27 | Indeed it may even be argued that many more of Rolle 's English texts were written specifically for her . |
| 28 | The next two concertos were written respectively for Barbara Ployer ( the intimate , engaging K.453 in G major ) and for the blind virtuoso Maria Theresia von Paradis . |
| 29 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 30 | After 5 washes in PBS , positive colonies ( heavily coated with paramagnetic beads ) were easily identified and were transferred individually for further growth and harvest of cell supernatants . |