Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were remanded on bail for reports . |
| 2 | Both were remanded in custody for sentence . |
| 3 | The two men were remanded in custody for a week . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , two men accused of the murder , Paul Patrick Magee , 42 , and Michael O'Brien , 28 , were remanded in custody for four weeks amid tight security at Old Thames Magistrates Court in London yesterday . |
| 5 | They made no plea and were remanded in custody for seven days . |
| 6 | Paul Andrew Weddle , of Southend Road , Gateshead , and the 15-year-old boy were remanded in custody for a week by the town 's magistrates . |
| 7 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 8 | Translations in ‘ latin ’ languages like Spanish and Italian were completed in time for the promulgation of the test by the Holy Father on December 7th last year . |
| 9 | Further investigations were carried out to determine whether or not the proportion of straightforward deliveries varied with the location of the items requested , to examine the proportion of deliveries from each location which were placed on reserve for readers , and to record the relative numbers of non-straightforward deliveries from each location which were attributable either to ‘ initial failure ’ or to the need to transfer items from another reader . |
| 10 | The subsidiary banks were also ordered to implement internal reforms and were placed on probation for five years . |
| 11 | Both were placed on probation for 18 months and Roche , of Lovaine Street , Middlesbrough , was ordered to pay £75 costs . |
| 12 | Some or all of the 13 will be questioned about shares which they or their relatives or aides received from Recruit ; the prosecutors suspect they were given in exchange for political favours . |
| 13 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 14 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 15 | Such analysis can be approached in two major ways : one can either take all those who were sustained at home for , say , six months or l2 months from referral in both action and control samples , and compare the two groups in order to see whether — as one would expect if the project were successful — those still at home in the control sample were less disadvantaged in home care terms , less poorly circumstanced or had fewer problems than those in the action samples . |
| 16 | The net outcome of his days in office were that about two hundred of the cases which were brought to his attention were treated with regard for human dignity , but the law affecting the rights of dependants and visitors was not changed ( except for one fairly minor aspect : in 1974 the sexually discriminatory ‘ Husbands Rule ’ was changed to allow women born or settled in Britain to have their foreign husbands here with them ) . |
| 17 | Aunt and nephew were treated at hospital for cuts and bruises . |
| 18 | Aunt and nephew were treated at hospital for cuts and bruises . |
| 19 | Nine Turkish immigrants were treated in hospital for burns and shock after the attack . |
| 20 | Four people aboard the yacht were thrown from their bunks , and were treated in hospital for cuts and shock . |
| 21 | The four month old girls were treated in hospital for smoke inhalation but later allowed home . |
| 22 | The children , aged ( 10 ) ten and ( 8 ) eight and two men were treated in hospital for minor injuries . |
| 23 | Five people were treated in hospital for cuts and whiplash but all were later released . |
| 24 | All were treated in hospital for shock . |
| 25 | At least three stool samples per patient were examined by culture for enteropathogenic Salmonella spp , Shigella spp , Campylobacter spp , Yersinia spp , Streptococcus spp , Staphylococcus spp , Clostridium spp , and mycobacteria . |
| 26 | In addition , stools were examined by microscopy for ova and parasites , including Cryptosporidium and Isopora . |
| 27 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 28 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 29 | They were filled with admiration for her highly individual personality ; they had been trained to sink their personalities into the line and were happy to do so . |
| 30 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |