Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stock was changing hands for as little as 14½p before the company put out a statement saying it knew of no reason , ‘ other than the general economic climate ’ , for the fall . |
| 2 | The policy of the defendant was to fix rents for the houses as a whole at an aggregate sum necessary to balance the cost of the loan capital and repairs ; there was no differential applied whereby tenants paid rent according to their means . |
| 3 | A great roar from the 15th green had suggested that Andy Kyle was making amends for his disaster . |
| 4 | The desperate need for more golf courses in the UK has already become a hot potato within the sport , but Keith Wright , Secretary of the English Golf Union , added fuel to the fire recently by claiming the way to satisfy the golf boom was to build courses for the average 18 handicap golfer . |
| 5 | One of the problems of the Ministry of Labour was to reconcile demands for increased mechanization to promote productivity with demands that older workers be kept on . |
| 6 | The firm 's main work was producing components for aircraft but my job was to investigate new product areas for the company . |
| 7 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 8 | While Ho was incarcerated , Vo Nguyen Giap was training guerrillas for action against the French . |
| 9 | The emphasis was on action and results rather than the collection of pages of analysis — the report produced by the scrutiny team was to include recommendations for the minister to act on . |
| 10 | One man 's job was to select films for airlines and cruise ships . |
| 11 | The IBA , with an over-abundance of legal caution , did cut such references from a Labour Party political broadcast , apparently on the ground that the broadcasters might be deemed " malicious " if their dominant motive was to win votes for themselves rather than to inform the public of the truth about persons standing for public office . |
| 12 | And the aim was to improve services for people in the town . |
| 13 | In that case the court was considering applications for judicial review by four prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for life imposed in the discretion of the trial judges for offences other than murder ( manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , false imprisonment of and sexual offences with boys , and arson by two of the appellants ) . |
| 14 | The most important part of the day was identifying priorities for action and agreeing how they would be handled . |
| 15 | The question of the proper age of transfer was referred to it , as the West Riding was making plans for a series of middle schools spanning the age range nine to thirteen . |
| 16 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 17 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 18 | The Directive 's objective was to coordinate conditions for the admission of securities to official Stock Exchange listing , with the aim of establishing a common market in securities . |
| 19 | Its officials blamed perennial financial woes as the reason , adding that the society was pursuing negotiations for a potentially life-saving merger with another institution — the New York Public Library . |
| 20 | A report tabled by Labour Minister Kuron to the Sejm on July 25 noted that the government was preparing proposals for the trades unions concerning the running of state enterprises . |
| 21 | NATO leaders were apparently taken by surprise when the Belgian Defence Minister , Guy Co me , announced on Jan. 25 , 1990 , that his government was studying plans for " the withdrawal of Belgian troops ( numbering 26,000 in total ) from West Germany " . |
| 22 | A slim youth with curly hair pushed his way round , collecting used glasses , and a young girl with a notebook was taking orders for food at the bar . |
| 23 | He said that the most important thing was to provide jobs for people . |
| 24 | On April 21 , Taylor said in a radio interview that President Joseph Momoh of Sierra Leone was blaming Liberians for what was in fact an uprising in his own country . |
| 25 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 26 | But in between Benjamin Titford was offering beds for the night to paying guests . ’ |
| 27 | She nodded as Topaz curtsied and then made her stately way to where Sister Agnes was sewing drawers for her Sisters in God . |
| 28 | As early as 1967 an inner group of ministers was examining proposals for the modernization of Polaris to prolong its credibility into the 1990s . |
| 29 | There the widow was recovering damages for the death of the original victim of the defendant 's negligence . |
| 30 | On Aug. 31 and Sept. 6 the authorities , reportedly anxious about the imminent visit of the Pope [ see below ] , used force to break up rallies called jointly by four opposition parties , whose purpose was to press demands for a national conference to decide rules for multiparty elections . |