Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 2 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 3 | This is in accord with the assumptions that were made for the attention focusing explanation given for the different relationship between risk and P(A) in the two cases . |
| 4 | In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place . |
| 5 | First , and most important , stick with fonts that were designed for the printer you are using even if this means giving up some of the typographic niceties . |
| 6 | The same things that were promised for the gas , electricity and water , but in rel reality the only section to gain are the fat cats at the top who have recently been given it 's obscene pay increases . |
| 7 | The eight fabrics that were chosen for the garments were completely different one from the other . |
| 8 | Mr Bruce said that the Social Work Director Paul Lee had been asked if the families ' lawyers could have access to all the interviews and medical examinations of the children that were performed for the Social Work Department . |
| 9 | On archaeological sites , pits are frequently found that were used for the disposal of household refuse that would nowadays be put in a dustbin , collected by the municipal authorities , and taken to a communal rubbish tip . |
| 10 | A high level of commitment from the Enterprise Steering Committee , from the staff of the Enterprise Centre , from our employer partners , and from Napier staff and students has enabled the achievement of the ‘ strategic ’ aims that were outlined for the year . |
| 11 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 12 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 13 | ‘ Bertie has been over to see us and has driven the car fitted with the engine management system he used in Donegal and the one that was fitted for the Ulster Rally . |
| 14 | The output from this analysis was summarised in the final report as a functional description of the filing systems , and used as the basis for the detailed user requirement that was prepared for the client . |
| 15 | Table 1.2 shows the contents of such a lattice that was obtained for the word its ( the graphical representation is shown in Fig 1.3 ) . |
| 16 | The recording system that was used for the baseline should be continued in exactly the same form . |
| 17 | The processing for the probabilistic syntactic analyser has been carried out on the same hardware that was used for the rule-based investigations ( i.e. a SUN Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) . |
| 18 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 19 | Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community . |
| 20 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 21 | We used to do any typing that was needed for the Aurae Phiala publications , and for the few little books and articles Stephen occasionally produced . |
| 22 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 23 | A second convention met in July 1833 and in an effort to improve the bill had a delegation denounce apprenticeship to Stanley 's face and managed to unite behind a Buxton amendment that apprenticeship should be for no longer than was required for the welfare of the slave . |
| 24 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 25 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 26 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 27 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 28 | Its cost was £5,000 per car and was destined for the twelve sun saloons and six of the 1937 railcoaches , although these never materialised . |
| 29 | Philip Matthews had a brief incumbency and was replaced for the North American tour by David Irwin , who in turn gave way because of injury to Willie Anderson . |
| 30 | Here again the core of the work probably dates from some time before ( late 1745 ) and was expanded for the 1747 event . |