Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 2 | Instructions were given for easing the routines in homes and institutions for the elderly . |
| 3 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 4 | He and a colleague were dismissed for using the drug during a visit to a holiday caravan park in Torquay . |
| 5 | Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ? |
| 6 | The local gentry and others were presented for taking the deer , which they had probably been accustomed to do for generations with little interference . |
| 7 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 8 | Second , failing to take off would give L Detachment 's detractors at headquarters just the ammunition they were looking for to disband the unit . |
| 9 | They were built for sailing the oceans . |
| 10 | Annual sales statistics provided by Alko Ltd were used for evaluating the consumption of various alcoholic beverages in Finland between 1960–89 . |
| 11 | The grids were used for assessing the position most appropriate for bisection of the crypts ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 12 | Roughly how many kilometres of steel rails , besides engines and rolling stock , do you think were needed for building the Indian railways ? |
| 13 | The defendants alone were sued for inducing/procuring the employees to breach their contracts of employment . |
| 14 | He and weightlifter Andrew Saxton were expelled for using the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 15 | During a long process of assimilation , the means were found for reinvesting the physical world with spiritual significance . |
| 16 | They were told by the police that there was reason to fear a breach of the peace if they proceeded and , when they attempted to push through , they were arrested for obstructing the police . |
| 17 | In Bristol twenty-nine persons were arrested for assaulting the police , malicious damage and disorderly conduct with respect to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers Movement and the Communist party in 1931 and 1932 . |
| 18 | 51 carriages and limbers were provided for transporting the Howitzer body and cradle and 45 for the Howitzer bed . |
| 19 | Points were awarded for naming the correct pubs and for answering the questions . |
| 20 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 21 | Apart from the inpatient waiting list initiative no extra resources were released for meeting the Charter standards , but meeting the standard for outpatient clinics may be at the expense of seeing fewer patients and a lengthening list for a first appointment . |
| 22 | Because of the fluctuating nature of the condition strict criteria were required for defining the time when the fluid ceased to persist ; when type B tympanograms changed to type A , C1 , or C2 ; and when an observation was stopped . |
| 23 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 24 | At one level , Nizan was reprimanded for confusing the reader , particularly in the concluding stages of the novel , with an excess of petty-bourgeois metaphysics . |
| 25 | Shankar Guha Niyogi had begun work in Bhilai in 1962 , but was dismissed for organising the workers against the AITUC . |
| 26 | The most significant Cabinet change was in July 1991 when Rabuka rejoined the government [ see also below ] , and Public Utilities Minister Apisai Tora was dismissed for accepting the presidency of a newly created political party . |
| 27 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 28 | His Majesty being made acquainted with it by the Bishop of London , Order was given for calling the Printers into the High-Commission , where upon Evidence of the Fact , the whole Impression was called in , and the Printers deeply fined , as they justly merited . |
| 29 | The reshuffle , which included the addition of two new Cabinet posts , was criticized for enlarging the Cabinet at a time of economic hardship . |
| 30 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |