Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [num] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Set a daunting 248 to win by the tourists , New Zealand were struggling at 94 for four and needing to score at over seven runs an over , but Crowe and a timely 44 not out off 28 balls by teenager Jeff Wilson saw the Kiwis home at 250 for seven . |
| 2 | Exponentially growing Hep3B cells were treated with IL-6 for several time intervals ( 0 , 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , 12 and 24h ) and total RNA was prepared according to the procedures of Chomezynski and Sacchi ( 35 ) . |
| 3 | Contracts were let in 1958 for both barrack building and the modernization of the RAF stations at Eastley and Embakasi . |
| 4 | The railway works at Crewe were built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway , which became part of the London and North Western Railway three years later . |
| 5 | Similar arrangements were made in 1639 for the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak . |
| 6 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 7 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 8 | The ten Pantograph cars 167–176 were introduced in 129 for service between Talbot Road Station and Fleetwood . |
| 9 | Three seamen were arrested in 1762 for leading a similar procession around Liverpool docks claiming a minimum wage of 40s. a month . |
| 10 | Seth scored 60 not out and then returned figures of 17–5–42–5 as Witham were reduced to 97 for six , setting up Sudbury for a 60-run success . |
| 11 | Rigzin Choenyi , Choenyi Lhamo , Sonam Choedron , Konchak Drolma , Tibetan nuns aged between 22 and 29 , were detained in 1989 for ‘ breaking martial law regulations ’ by shouting slogans in favour of Tibetan independence from China . |
| 12 | ‘ We were criticised in '91 for our lack of marketing expertise … that was both a disappointment and a learning experience ’ , reflected Rowlands in Catania . |
| 13 | In the eastern counties Snell examined ( Cambridgeshire , Bedfordshire , Huntingdonshire , Northamptonshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Oxfordshire and Hampshire ) female real wages were falling after 1760 for the sharply declining numbers still required . |
| 14 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 15 | They were reunited in 1962 for Sergeants Three . |
| 16 | These bunkers were constructed in 1966 for the express purpose of preventing Nicklaus from taking this route . |
| 17 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 18 | These powers were invoked in 1988 for the purpose of direct political censorship when the BBC and the IBA were ordered not to transmit any interviews with representatives of Sinn Fein , the Ulster Defence Association , the IRA or certain other extremist groups , or to broadcast any statement which incited support for such groups . |
| 19 | By this time too there were economies in staff and publications because of the war : Gleanings and Memoranda , the Constitutional Year Book and other semi-partisan pieces of literature were suspended in 1917 for the duration . |
| 20 | When London phone numbers were divided into 071 for inner London and 081 for outer districts , some people worried that 081 numbers would lower their ‘ social standing ’ . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal on June 26 overturned the convictions of the " Maguire Seven " , who were imprisoned in 1976 for possession of explosives in connection with the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich public house bombings ( see pp. 26870-71 ; 27739 ) . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , leading Sussex Catholics , including John Gage of Firle and Richard Shelley of Warninghurst were imprisoned in 1580 for recusancy ; they still continued to pay the heavy taxes and fines demanded of them . |
| 23 | It was formed in 1939 for the same purpose as the NL , to amalgamate and strengthen various extreme right-wing and pro-fascist movements . |
| 24 | In 1793 he was appointed surveyor to the Mint , but was dismissed in 1794 for inattention to duty . |
| 25 | The longstanding rumours of Clinton 's alleged marital infidelity crystallized in the form of an accusation by Larry Nichols , a former Arkansas employee who was dismissed in 1988 for allegedly using state telephones to make long-distance calls . |
| 26 | The painting , which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat standing next to a pair of curtains which have been cut out to form the shape of the man , was painted in 1966 for the present ( American ) owner 's parents who were friends of the artist . |
| 27 | Even Smolenskaia derevnia , an organ specifically designed for local peasant consumption and far better attuned to Belorussian interests than Bednota , was criticized in 1923 for insufficient contact with village life . |
| 28 | The disposal of Ultramar 's refining and marketing businesses was completed during 1992 for US$125 million . |
| 29 | The property was completed in 1990 for the Pyman family of shipbuilders . |
| 30 | He was indicted in 1983 for having helped the Flick company escape tax obligations while he was Economics Minister ( Flick was a donor to party funds ) . |