Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The latter was needed both for its general utility and so that " we can survive outside Europe " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 11 | The Ashleys annexed Number 25 , to be used only for selling fabric ( at thirty-five pence per yard ) as the factory was still producing far more than could be made up into garments , while Number 23 was used just for children 's clothes . |
| 12 | The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt , dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego . |
| 13 | The use by the Prime Minister of powers under the royal prerogative to ban trade unions at the Government Communication Headquarters at Cheltenham in 1983 was contested both for its lawfulness — that is whether such powers could be used and if so whether they were used correctly — and also for its legitimacy that is whether , even if the constitutional power existed , this was a proper and fair use of the power . |
| 14 | More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise . |
| 15 | Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After a preliminary strategic session in London , fields were divided into four cognate groups and each was visited separately for a day on the basis of a volume of field proposals and a critical review . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll try again next — ’ Then he broke off , made a tiny adjustment of the device , and suddenly there it was — a rapid , fluttering little beat that was lost again for several seconds as Faye tensed and moved . |
| 19 | Dosh is an Australian blend of dollar and cash , and spondulos is a type of sea shell that was used widely for trade in Africa . |
| 20 | And that was put in for your dividend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So that was going alright for a while . |
| 23 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |