Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust . |
| 2 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 4 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
| 5 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 6 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 7 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 8 | Second , the regulators were looking for an infusion of capital from outside the banking industry . |
| 9 | But there could have been a little more hope if Huddersfield referee Steve Bell had given a penalty when David Cork was manhandled to the ground in the six yard box when Quakers were looking for an equaliser . |
| 10 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 11 | They were looking for an instrument of murder . |
| 12 | When it is applied to video materials for language teaching , it mostly seems to mean that the materials were made for an audience of native speakers . |
| 13 | Calls were made for an end to commercial strikes and to the involvement of children in the process . |
| 14 | If a new Prime Minister were needed for an emergency coalition and no obvious successor existed , the Sovereign would have to make the best choice possible . |
| 15 | The 38 bulls sold averaged £1,738.57 compared with £1,665.24 last year and four steers were sold for an average of £475.13 . |
| 16 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 17 | Survival rates at 30 days were compared for an intention-to-treat and an efficacy population . |
| 18 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |
| 19 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |
| 20 | Two students were studying for an MSc by research , and the rest were doing other things . |
| 21 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 22 | Mixed layouts of flats and houses were advocated for an area of different types of household with a range of facilities for local use , including schools , shops , open space and a community centre . |
| 23 | * Is your sickness due to an accident which happened while you were working for an employer ? |
| 24 | * Is your sickness due to a prescribed industrial disease caused by conditions at work , while you were working for an employer ? |
| 25 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 26 | Dialysis bags constructed as above , and filled with each of the two test solutions , were suspended for an hour at 37°C without stirring in 10 ml of a solution of the following composition ( mmol/l ) : Na 135 , K 15 , Cl 100 , HCP 3 40 , acetate 10 . |
| 27 | Secondly , dialysis bags with the two test fluids were suspended for an hour in a solution of composition similar to cholera stool . |
| 28 | No wonder my innards were craving for an ice-cream , a beefburger , a ham-and-salad sandwich , a hot-dog . |
| 29 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 30 | He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ . |