Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wagonway was constructed to carry coal from local pits to the wooden staithes — the wharves where ships lined up for loading — and brick houses were built for miners and dockers in the town that was exporting four million tons of coal a year by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Each committee was aware of the dangers of individual or mass arrest , and contingency plans were made for the automatic replacement of committee members should they be arrested . |
| 3 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 4 | Slightly higher proliferation indices were found for the 4th and 5th compartments with the BrdU than with the PCNA technique . |
| 5 | Conversely , equilibrium transcript concentrations were affected for genes involved in deletion : there was a 45 to 65% decrease for genes coding for NADH-dehydrogenase subunits , and a 35% decrease for the cytochrome b gene . |
| 6 | Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign . |
| 7 | Investigations for viral pathogens were done by electron microscopical examination of stool samples ( identification of rota , corona , and adenoviruses ) , and cultures of stool samples and intestinal biopsies on three different cell lines were observed for characteristic cytopathic effects . |
| 8 | The same RNA samples from several cell lines were probed for ATF1 RNA , β2-microglobulin RNA ( as a monitor of differentiation ( 46 ) ) and CREB RNA which has previously been shown to be present at similar levels in UF9 and DF9 cells ( 47 ) . |
| 9 | Nuclear extracts from all three cell lines were used for band shift experiments to investigate whether any correlation between transcriptional activities and DNA binding patterns could be established . |
| 10 | A couple in one house at Primrose Gardens were treated for shock and smoke inhalation . |
| 11 | He had returned from Gascony at the end of 1254 , after disastrous and expensive enterprises in France and in Sicily : in the following March commissioners were appointed for the sale of timber in the royal forests ‘ for the relief of the King 's debts ’ , with the assistance of two or three knights and the local Forest officers . |
| 12 | Under Somoza , there were scarcely any official prisons as such ; rather , the National Guard command posts were used for detention . |
| 13 | The neighbourhood associations were used for administrative functions , but members were also encouraged to spy and report on fellow members to minimize disloyalty and unpatriotic behaviour , encouraging an atmosphere of mutual suspicion . |
| 14 | Adding these to the other elements of the claim and demands for extra London weighting , Mr Clarke had said in the Commons that ambulance workers were looking for ‘ rather a lot more money ’ . |
| 15 | Numerous key Reagan administration figures were indicted for , and some convicted of , major offences ranging from violating federal ethics laws to perjury . |
| 16 | Paisley , Councillor James McCarroll ( a Protestant Unionist Councillor and an elder of the Free Presbyterian Church ) , and three other Protestant Action activists were summonsed for holding a march without giving the statutory notice to the police and fined £5 . |
| 17 | Car horns were blared for minutes on end , headlights were flashed , people danced and sang and shouted , " The Shah is gone . |
| 18 | Within a week three other North Harbour players were heading for Japan , making five from that union . |
| 19 | The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ . |
| 20 | Last year 12 Wellington College pupils were expelled for taking cannabis and LSD . |
| 21 | The office was contacted after disability living allowances were awarded for Emma , eight , and Charmaine , 14 , both of whom have learning difficulties and attend the Riverwalk Special School , Bury St Edmunds . |
| 22 | Given the outstanding success and commitment of the students with fewer than two A levels there was very little in the report to suggest that ‘ standard ’ entry requirements were needed for success . |
| 23 | At the peak of their literary importance , broadside sheets were used for poems by men of such eminence as John Dryden ( 1631–1700 ) , and publications of this nature could certainly find a fit home with any book-collector . |
| 24 | They had another endoscopy and four antral and four body biopsy specimens were obtained for histological examination . |
| 25 | Deparaffinised and cryostat sections of the gastric biopsy specimens were evaluated for the presence of various antigens using the immunoalkaline phosphatase method ( APAAP ) . |
| 26 | Ten gastric mucosal biopsy specimens were required for DNA extraction . |
| 27 | A total of four gastric antral biopsy specimens were taken for histology ( two specimens ) , culture ( one specimen ) , and CLO test ( one specimen ) . |
| 28 | Four pinch biopsy specimens were taken for cell proliferation analysis from macroscopically normal mucosa in the sigmoid colon , 20 cm from the anus , to control for the anatomical difference in cell proliferation . |
| 29 | Antral , corpus , and fundal biopsy specimens were taken for histology and H pylori status ( histology , culture , and rapid urease test ) . |
| 30 | At each endoscopy , biopsy specimens were taken for histological examination ( DU trial : two antral , one body ; IM trial : four antral , four body ) . |