Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] was [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A set of reasons was given for re-organisation in terms of linking an appropriate size to the functions to be performed in order to reap the benefits of the economies of scale . |
| 2 | A different range of skills was required for producing containers , be they ‘ buckets ’ , glassware , turned wooden vessels or pottery . |
| 3 | The films in both phases were divided into six blocks of four junctions each and the order of presentation of blocks was randomized for each subject . |
| 4 | A much larger proportion of resources was earmarked for social development , and less emphasis was given to encouraging manufacturing investment by means of fiscal incentives . |
| 5 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 6 | With these and other predictions in mind , and with reference to the relevant checklists , the following list of questions was selected for initial classroom observation . |
| 7 | The traditional bourgeois ethic , puritan or secular , had ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect , for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business , and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth and still less ‘ sound ’ views . |
| 8 | What was crucial , though , was that this development did not mean that a special category of movies was made for a sectional audience but rather that what was thought of as the ‘ quality ’ taste was allowed to shape the general output of movies . |
| 9 | In our study a sample of newspapers was examined for all their stories about rape and sexual crime more generally . |
| 10 | The climax came when a show of hands was asked for to vote on a proposal that the evening 's raffle prize , a cuddly soap dish , be replaced by the manager 's job . |
| 11 | A SHANKILL Road man who molested and took obscene photographs of children was jailed for five years today . |
| 12 | The utility of science was indeed everywhere urged , just as the utility of classics was urged for those who were to be legislators , justices of the peace or district officers in the colonies . |
| 13 | The number of symptoms was computed for each subject and the groups were compared for the proportion having 1 and 2 symptoms . |
| 14 | Talks between trade officials in Beijing on Sept. 14-16 failed to achieve a breakthrough ; a last round of talks was scheduled for the week before the Oct. 10 deadline . |
| 15 | His only surviving set of clothes was exhibited for many years at the London Inn on St. John 's Street , and the American dwarf Charles Stratton ( ‘ General Tom Thumb ’ ) visited Stamford in 1846 , 1859 , and with his wife Livinia Warren and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren in 1866 , to view the phenomenon . |
| 16 | This happened when a gift of clothes was left for one brownie , who cried : |
| 17 | It is instructive to compare these accounts with another proposed project ( FAO/UNDP ) reported by Velloso ( 1981 ) in Honduras where an effective linkage between the community and Honduran entrepreneurs for the proper exploitation and industrialisation of forests was hoped for . |
| 18 | He said only a very small percentage of forests was used for furniture , the rest was wasted or burned as fuel by the local people . |
| 19 | ( It should be noted that this group of women was selected for the analysis because , at these ages , practically all women in developing countries have married or entered into some kind of conjugal union at least once and , also , because their mating and fertility patterns represent more recent behaviour than those of women in the older reproductive age groups ) . |
| 20 | A target figure of 70 machine sets of components was set for delivery by 31 July 1942 , out of a total order of 225 sets , later reduced to 160 . |
| 21 | As usual in Airdrie a series of events was planned for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity . |
| 22 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 23 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 24 | A THIEF who stole from cars was jailed for a year yesterday . |
| 25 | The effect of gastric fundectomy with hypergastrinaemia on the pancreas in rats was studied for 14 months . |
| 26 | No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head . |
| 27 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 28 | THE report A Survey Of Attitudes To Sex Among 13 to 17-year-olds was written for the Daily Mirror by the Research Group of Great Britain Limited . |
| 29 | A TEENAGE rapist who committed a catalogue of sex and dishonesty offences after being freed on bail by magistrates was jailed for 11 years by two different Old Bailey judges yesterday . |