Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 2 | In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population . |
| 3 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 4 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 5 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 6 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 7 | In the C2 event which followed , Andriev/Haralambie of Romania were disqualified for the same reason , the win going to Papke/Spelly of Germany . |
| 8 | Although further peace negotiations were scheduled for the latter half of 1991 , the situation remained unresolved . |
| 9 | Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies . |
| 10 | The results in table 3.5 were obtained for the same test sentence . |
| 11 | At least three months post treatment endoscopy was performed and biopsies were obtained for the same procedures as above . |
| 12 | In this case , though , is n't it more likely that Joanna was looking for the same 15 minutes of fame achieved by Australian nightclub singer Fairlie Arrow a year ago ? |
| 13 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 14 | In March 1940 he was expelled from the Labour Party , and the University Labour Federation , which represented students of Labour sympathies , was disaffiliated for the same reason . |
| 15 | Radio and television time was bought for the same purpose . |
| 16 | It may well be that the canny consumer , after benefiting from retailers ' losing their nerve and going into early reductions in 1991 , was waiting for the same to happen again . |
| 17 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 18 | Complete mobilization of the forces was scheduled for the same day — one of those strokes of government that real people marvel at . |
| 19 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |
| 20 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 21 | The integral malt loader was removed for the same treatment and refitted . |
| 22 | Last night a nationwide alert was issued for the former foreign embassy bodyguard , who has Merseyside connections , and the public was warned not to approach him under any circumstances . |
| 23 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 24 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 25 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 26 | To an extent , the stormy exterior mirrored the relationship of their employers , Bernard and Laura ; but underneath everyone was shooting for the same goal . |
| 27 | As it was , a few years later another similar boat , a Fairy Swordfish , was purchased for the same purpose which in my opinion was a much inferior seaboat . |
| 28 | Inevitably , New Zealand duo Mark Thorpe and David Bargh led the way for Newcastle , the former reeling off a 15point maximum while his skipper was paid for the same total . |
| 29 | A massive police search was launched for the former paratrooper involving 25 officers , a search and rescue team , dogs and horses . |
| 30 | A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded . |