Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [vb pp] for [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 6 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 7 | Pliny spoke of the kraken in the Straits of Gibraltar , where it basked on the warm surface of the water and was mistaken for a series of small islands . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 12 | Here again the core of the work probably dates from some time before ( late 1745 ) and was expanded for the 1747 event . |
| 13 | Gascoigne snapped his cruciate ligaments playing for Tottenham in the 1991 FA Cup Final and was sidelined for a year . |
| 14 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 15 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 16 | This particular dataset covers two years where RAWP used only one in their validation exercise , and was compiled for an article in the Lancet which was critical of the RAWP formula ( Forster 1977 ) . |
| 17 | The plaintiff lived in Totteridge and was evaluated for the poor rates by the assessors for Hatfield . |
| 18 | It moved northward through France from the Mediterranean coast and was recorded for the first time in Britain at a site in Hampshire , in March 1961 . |
| 19 | Grundy , 35 , of Sprotborough , Doncaster — a promising policeman who had been acting sergeant and passed his inspector 's exams — admitted theft and was jailed for a year . |
| 20 | and was pulled for a stint |
| 21 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 22 | I was directed to the house that had formerly been the inn and was admitted for an overnight stay with supper , bed and breakfast . |
| 23 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 24 | In Edinburgh , she met with representatives of SEAD and was interviewed for a media article . |
| 25 | Mowbray was frustrated over Achilles tendon and ankle injuries , and was suspended for the last game when Celtic suffered an embarrassing home defeat to Hibs . |
| 26 | This building probably held about 100 people and was used for a Sunday evening service as well as the Sunday School . |
| 27 | His drag double act with Roy Barraclough ( Coronation Street 's Alec Gilroy ) , harked back to Norman Evans and was used for a television commercial for the Post Office . |
| 28 | It became known as the Astral Works in 1887 , and was used for the generation of electricity . |
| 29 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |
| 30 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |