Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1897 the Royal Navy conducted a punitive expedition against Benin ( in what is now Nigeria ) and brought back to Britain a large number of bronze castings which were sold to pay for the raid . |
| 2 | The specifications were sent to seven suppliers who were invited to bid for the installation of a new system . |
| 3 | Other Somervillians who were selected to play for the University are Judith Buttigeig ( cricket ) , Mary Haslop ( fencing ) Jane Greenall ( football ) , Rose George and Ruth Roboski ( hockey ) , Katherine Walters ( netball ) and Anna Turner ( lacrosse ) . |
| 4 | Large numbers of recruits to English would offset the small numbers who were expected to apply for French . |
| 5 | Although Muslims in some areas paid cizye , the burden of this tax bore most heavily on the Christians , who were required to pay for every male of twelve years of age on a sliding scale , according to his assessed wealth . |
| 6 | 10 Which of these animals would you choose to be with if you were asked to pose for a magazine photograph ? |
| 7 | Er fairly recently we were asked to tender for erm a new station at Rickmansworth for Crossrail and one of the prerequisites of that job , er which was a ten million pound project , er one of the prerequisites of that job , was that we should either be certificated or at least have a quality assurance erm system in place . |
| 8 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 9 | It was only because we had the quality systems in place , okay we did n't have accreditation er at the time , but the quality systems were in place , that we were invited to tender for the Crossrail project for Rickmansworth station . |
| 10 | We were we were instructed to dig for victory and so we 've got er erm a gardening guide And a book that I 've also got called We 'll eat Again which is full of war time recipes . |
| 11 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 12 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 13 | NICK KNIGHT 'S fighting qualities came to the rescue of champions Essex as they were made to struggle for runs in reply to Northants ' 444 for nine declared at Chelmsford . |
| 14 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 15 | Men of the king 's demesnes , as in Rodley in the Forest of Dean , were required to show by what warrant they exercised their rights of common and estovers of dead and dry wood in the forest , and if they could produce none they were required to pay for them . |
| 16 | For the peasantry , the terms of Emancipation , under which they were compelled to pay for the land , were a bitter disappointment . |
| 17 | Normally , banks are unwilling to use their funds for financing enterprises in other republics and provinces , but it seems that in this case the banks in the more prosperous parts of Yugoslavia had funds in excess of the amounts they were permitted to use for giving credits to their own customers ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Would their behaviour alter dramatically if they were left to hunt for food in the wild ? |
| 19 | They were expected to continue for a month , with a 10-day break in early September . |
| 20 | On these occasions FANY and ATS drivers were given an allowance of six shillings a night with which they were expected to fend for themselves . |
| 21 | The women ended up having to negotiate everything through their husbands , and when they were expected to work for nothing on their husbands ' plots they refused and demanded full payment . |
| 22 | Abel-Smith has pointed out that before 1911 the doctors were in conflict with the Friendly Societies about the conditions under which they were hired to care for members . |
| 23 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |