Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of price , Hamer challenge Gibson 's own reissues amongst other quality guitars , and I 'm sure that if someone were to go shopping for an instrument with a classic tone , but prepared to keep an open mind and buy with their ears , then they may well end up going home with a Hamer . |
| 2 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 3 | A more important matter concerned them : the fate of their souls in eternity if they were to die fighting for an unjust cause . |
| 4 | He strode to the reception desk , made a brisk enquiry and then came straight over to where Patrick and Chris were standing waiting for the lift . |
| 5 | On June 22 , 1989 , a new law was ratified providing for the public execution of drug traffickers and dealers as well as of cultivators of plants used for drug production . |
| 6 | It was the public sector which was to provide housing for the locally employed work force . |
| 7 | Morris was concussed playing for the North at the weekend . |
| 8 | The dinner hour was spent revising for a test we 're supposed to be having on . |
| 9 | At the same time an agreement was signed providing for a grant of 2,400,000 European currency units ( ECU1=US$1.19255 as at March 26 , 1990 ) to help combat marine pollution especially by oil . |
| 10 | During President Havel 's visit to Moscow on Feb. 26-27 [ see p. 37256 ] , an agreement was signed providing for the departure of all 73,500 Soviet forces from Czechoslovakia by July 1991 . |
| 11 | Nicandra was standing waiting for a second turn at her reflection , her attitude a droop of pure unhappiness . |
| 12 | At the Consumer Congress conference held in July 1988 a resolution was passed calling for a Transport ( Scotland ) Bill732 , an enforceable code of good practice for the operation and provision of public transport . |
| 13 | In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure . |
| 14 | It was required reading for the Royals in Balmoral this weekend . |