Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A microphone and musical instruments were placed ready for a band . |
| 2 | A further eight patients with villous adenomas but no evidence of malignant change were deemed unsuitable for the study and were given laser treatment only . |
| 3 | This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance . |
| 4 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 5 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 6 | Four levels were considered appropriate for the arguments which follow in parts two , three and four . |
| 7 | It is also possible that with the decline in activity in Norfolk , other eastern counties were considered attractive for the next phase in development , perhaps because the ground in the west appeared to have been secured through Shearman and Miss Green . |
| 8 | Statistical comparison of tumour growth rate was by two way analysis of variance ( time and treatment regimen ) and tumour weight and DNA content by one way analysis of variance , p values <0.01 were considered significant for the two way analysis and p values <0.05 for the one way analysis . |
| 9 | The Cherry and Whites were on top then and were looking good for an opening win when Damien Cummins dropped a goal to make it 9-3 … |
| 10 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 11 | The first set of temporary positions were offered in December 1983 for the spring and summer terms in 1984 , while further positions were made available for the autumn term 1984 and the spring term in 1985 . |
| 12 | Taxi drivers still complain a bit , as they do , but parking facilities were made available for the disabled . |
| 13 | Pair after pair of serwal were made ready for the tailor 's sewing machine . |
| 14 | Hence the constant , and eventually often vain , calls of the leaders of such new states to surmount ‘ tribalism ’ , ‘ communalism ’ , or whatever forces were made responsible for the failure of the new inhabitants of the Republic of X to feel themselves to be primarily patriotic citizens of X rather than members of some other collectivity . |
| 15 | Local authorities were made responsible for the welfare of the handicapped under the National Assistance Act of 1948 . |
| 16 | These authorities were made responsible for the ‘ catechetical instruction ’ of children in elementary schools , according to their parents ' denomination . |
| 17 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 18 | All the boats were getting ready for the regatta that afternoon , bailing out dinghies , coiling ropes , and smells of food frying wafted across the smell of the estuary . |
| 19 | It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man 's beard in the hedges , and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along . |
| 20 | Recent studies on breast carcinomas showed that high urokinase type plasminogen activator concentrations in tissue extracts are positively and independently associated with aggressiveness and poor prognosis while low tissue type plasminogen activator concentrations were found indicative for a shorter disease free interval and survival . |
| 21 | The fact that , unlike men , women 's periods of bodily emission followed a regular and extended ( i.e. several days at a time ) cycle meant that they were declared unclean for a large part of their lives ( for details see below ) . |
| 22 | PKK guerrillas based in Iraq were believed responsible for an Oct. 7 attack in which automatic weapons were used to kill 11 Turkish soldiers in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province . |
| 23 | The United States and United Kingdom authorities on Nov. 13 announced that they had filed charges against two Libyan nationals who were believed responsible for the bomb which exploded on an aircraft over Lockerbie , Scotland , in 1988 . |
| 24 | The Health Study included 1455 children aged 6–59 months , who were monitored weekly for a year . |
| 25 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 26 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 27 | The contents of the bowl were left undisturbed for an hour or two , by which time a kind of honeycombed curd had formed on the top , leaving alcoholic whey underneath . |
| 28 | It was best that Maggie and Laura were left alone for a while . |
| 29 | After a while they were left alone for a bit and then a Black Maria turned up . |
| 30 | Elections to a 41-member House of Representatives of the People last took place in July 1988 , when all candidates were nominated by the President and were elected unopposed for a five-year term . |