Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after the Jan. 28 demonstrations began at noon , leaders of the three parties behind the anti-NSF demonstration were summoned for urgent talks at the NSF headquarters . |
| 2 | England in reply were dismissed for 454 , with Les Ames ( 137 ) and ‘ Gubby ’ Allen ( 122 ) putting on an eighth-wicket partnership of 246 , which still stands as a Test record for that wicket . |
| 3 | After preoperative screening , 99 patients ( 88% ) with an adenocarcinoma in columnar lined oesophagus were considered for surgical treatment . |
| 4 | Over the past three years 55 patients with symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction were recruited for two clinical trials . |
| 5 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 6 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 7 | It had also been studied in America , with the result that the cylindrical wheel was recommended for high speed work . |
| 8 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 9 | There is a school of thought that claims that the ghetto was cleared for commercial rather than health reasons . |
| 10 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 11 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 12 | This experiment was repeated for different pellets from the same sample when fresh ( wet ) and when dry . |
| 13 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin , stung by a humiliating rebuff from Russia 's supreme legislature , accused it yesterday of seeking to restore Communist rule and his spokesman said the president was poised for decisive action . |
| 14 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 15 | Masonry was used for important , ecclesiastical work , especially in the south and some of this work is extant . |
| 16 | Claims rocketed , and as confirmed at today 's annual meeting a three billion pound loss was incurred for 1990 . |
| 17 | A previous negative test result was recorded for 307 of the homosexual men infected with HIV ( table III ) . |
| 18 | Additionally , a presumptive positive result was recorded for any sample if three out of four of the sections examined were positive for the IS 6110 polymerase chain reaction . |
| 19 | A continuous 6/0 silk suture was used for intestinal anastomoses . |
| 20 | One soldier was trapped for 20 minutes because the impact of the crash forced the lorry door on to his body . |
| 21 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 22 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 23 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 24 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 25 | Then an individualised reintroduction programme was designed for each patient , usually starting with rice or potato and lamb or chicken on the first week . |
| 26 | AN emergency aid programme was promised for flood-devastated North Wales yesterday as the sun shone on a massive mopping-up operation . |
| 27 | Placental weight was recorded for 1320 men . |
| 28 | Basal gastric secretion was collected for 60 minutes , and bFGF was infused subcutaneously ( at a rate of 4ml/hour ) in various doses ranging from 1 to 100 µg/kg/hour with a peristaltic pump ; each dose was infused for 60 minutes in one day 's test . |
| 29 | The demographic data for the two groups are shown in Table I. Gastric secretion was corrected for pyloric loss using phenol red , and for duodenogastric reflux , using the sodium content of the aspirate . |
| 30 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |