Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 2 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 3 | The number of statistical staff at the 650 was indeed cut by about a third , but as the Pickford report points out , this was made up for by greater use of computers . |
| 4 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 5 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 6 | The following drill shows how this was set up for ( simplified ) Basari ( Togo ) : Once these simple drills are mastered then the noun phrase in the object slot could be expanded by the addition of one modifier at a time and drilled until all modifiers which may be affixed for concord with the noun have been drilled . |
| 7 | This was put up for vetting to a nominated superintendent whose instinctive response was to deny its submission , suggesting it ‘ looked as if it would be editorially unsuitable ’ . |
| 8 | Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms . |
| 9 | But here at Lord 's in 1992 , Pakistan 's first three were shot out for ducks , the scoreboard showing 18 for 3 after Chris Lewis had found the bat 's fatal edge three times while Sohail bravely carved and thumped 16 runs . |
| 10 | The latter were passed around for us to examine . |
| 11 | The news when Rain reached the office was that Tavett was again being questioned by the police ; there were insistent rumours of a row between Maureen and Barron ; the freedom of speech people were muttering obscenities because their latest attempt at a cartoon had been rejected ; and the Patriotic Ten were casting around for a fresh mind to help them get their statement into publishable form . |
| 12 | United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane . |
| 13 | Ninety three patients entered the study , and 82 were followed up for up to five years ( mean ( SEM ) 28 ( 1.5 ) months ) with six monthly ultrasonagraphy and yearly oral cholecystectography . |
| 14 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
| 15 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 16 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 17 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 18 | A Beech G-17S was hammered down for $ 195,000 , and Bob Pond purchased a Denny Lynch-owned Douglas A-26 Invader for $ 135,000 . |
| 19 | And that was put in for your dividend . |
| 20 | Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity . |
| 21 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 22 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |