Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And that was put in for your dividend . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |