Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 2 | All the original crews were expected to volunteer for 45 sorties : by and large this meant in effect that each PFF crew would start a full Bomber Command tour of about 31 ) sorties . |
| 3 | Occupations such as these were expected to account for three-quarters of the net job growth in this period , and employers were advised to look beyond their traditional " preferred " groups when recruiting . |
| 4 | Hitherto member states were expected to pay for all environmental measures themselves . |
| 5 | The price the Jews were expected to pay for this help was cooperation and conformity . |
| 6 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 7 | On Oct. 4 six men were sentenced to death for trafficking in cannabis and on Nov. 9 five men , aged between 35 and 46 , were sentenced to hang for similar offences [ see also pp. 34485 ; 36557 ] . |
| 8 | The long-term solution was reached in 1852 when local authorities were empowered to provide for all classes and denominations . |
| 9 | During interrogation some detainees were made to kneel for long periods , in some cases on bottle tops and pebbles , and received severe beatings on their backs , the soles of their feet and hands . |
| 10 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 11 | Against this wage trend , the rising prices of the latter part of the century were bound to make for severe reductions in living standards . |
| 12 | Aggressively inclined courtiers like Prince Menshikov ( who was much more militant as a diplomat and as Navy Minister than as Governor of Finland ) were beginning to press for pre-emptive action . |
| 13 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 14 | Indeed variations in profitability were found to account for some three-quarters of the variations in capital stock during this period ( European Economy , 1991 ) . |
| 15 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 16 | Instead of responding to a pair of words , readers were asked to look for specific relationships between a single word and a sentence . |
| 17 | At the end of February , supported by many of the intelligentsia , workers in Petrograd and Moscow were incited to riot for better food rations . |
| 18 | Lothian and Borders fire crews were forced to call for extra assistance after the fire engulfed the kitchen and roof of Dean Park Primary School , a single-story building . |
| 19 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 20 | Because low profits also militated against the use of available funds for productive investment , investors were encouraged to search for short-term speculative ‘ killings ’ . |
| 21 | Method : Stains were left to dry for 24 hours ( old stains are the most stubborn ) . |
| 22 | When in 1859 nine of the most upright miners from Seaton Delaval — ‘ every man a teetotaller , six of them Primitive Methodists , and two of the six local preachers ’ — were sent to jail for two months after a strike which they had opposed , the mine manager was quite clear on this point . |
| 23 | The intermediary stage was intended to last for three to five years . |
| 24 | A pressure group known as the Disablement Income Group ( DIG ) was formed to campaign for better provision . |
| 25 | Speculation emerged in both Manila and Washington that the plan was designed to play for sufficient time to allow for a reversal of the Senate 's decision after the election of its new President in May 1992 . |
| 26 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 27 | After calculation the number obtained was 48 in each group and 5% was added to compensate for non-evaluable patients . |
| 28 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 29 | The foreign trade growth rate was forecast to reach 18.8 per cent , of which the growth in exports was expected to account for 36 per cent and commercial imports 13.2 per cent . |
| 30 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |