Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 2 | Some women did not register because they were discouraged from looking for paid work because of the poor state of the economy . |
| 3 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 4 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 5 | He has overhauled the legal aid system ; attacked the Bar 's 200-year-old monopoly ; moved towards a unified family court system ; introduced major changes in civil court procedures ; called for more black judges and women lawyers ; and removed magistrates who were disqualified from driving for twelve months after drink-driving convictions . |
| 6 | In twenty-six states ‘ Reds ’ were disqualified from running for office , working as civil servants , and some from holding passports or drawing unemployment money . |
| 7 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 8 | A review of the hospital notes of 570 diabetics registered with the relevant general practitioners identified 415 eligible patients , who were asked in writing for informed consent to enter the trial ( fig 3 ) . |
| 9 | On Sept. 8 , 1989 , Emmanuel Moigua and Kalilu Titangay , members of the Pan-African Union ( Panafu ) group were detained for calling for a week of anti-racist and anti-Zionist action , including a campaign against the influential Israeli-managed N. R. Scippa company which was involved in diamond and gold mining and in importing rice . |
| 10 | At the islands ' police headquarters they were detained for questioning for four and a half hours . |
| 11 | The wings were charged with meaning for the Victorians : based on the ancient Egyptian good-luck symbol , the winged globe , they were associated , too , with winged time , with Cupid and with the protection of guardian angels . |
| 12 | Greenshank were dashing about nervously in the shallows , as greenshanks do , small parties of elegant curlew sandpipers were busily feeding by probing the sand , and grey plovers were standing about watching for any small movements . |
| 13 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 14 | With time lost to the weather , England were faced with surviving for eight and three-quarter hours to draw the match , but Gooch and Rose fell quickly . |
| 15 | After Pontypool took similar action a decade ago , against California Golden Poppies in San Francisco , they were banned from touring for three years . |
| 16 | The reaction was stopped by boiling for 3 minutes . |
| 17 | Acid output was calculated by allowing for the amount of juice produced in each time interval , and was expressed as mEq/h . |
| 18 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 19 | The view is that Salmond was duped , that he was tricked into voting for the Government on Maastricht and got next to nothing in return . |
| 20 | He was rescued after waving for help . |
| 21 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 22 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 23 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 24 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 25 | Bates was only playing because £100,000-signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 26 | Bates was only playing because £100,000 signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 27 | Following the addition of sequencing primer ( 100 ng ) , the DNA was denatured by boiling for 3 minutes and then snap frozen on dry ice . |
| 28 | The Danes Camp hill-fort in Northamptonshire , for instance , was threatened by quarrying for ironstone . |
| 29 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 30 | The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference . |