Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual response factors were calculated for each fatty acid . |
| 2 | No prices were given for either new product . |
| 3 | One hundred and twenty three adults were treated for benign oesophageal strictures over the six years , 1986–92 . |
| 4 | The Fiji police believed that the arms , seized by Australian customs officials in Sydney , were intended for disaffected Fijian Indians [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 5 | In Florence , where black itinerant traders were blamed for increased petty crime and were viewed by local traders as a source of unfair competition , a number of violent incidents took place . |
| 6 | Fifteen years later , when everyone believed that computers were designed for advanced scientific work , business unexpectedly showed an interest in a machine that could do payroll . |
| 7 | So they both were searching for some lost part of themselves this summer . |
| 8 | When Capital Transfer Tax was introduced in 1975 substantial exemptions were granted for outstanding historic houses , their contents and amenity land ( and provisions made for maintenance funds ) in return for public access and undertakings for conservation . |
| 9 | The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists . |
| 10 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 11 | Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night . |
| 12 | In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 13 | Partially purified extracts of bacterially expressed VT2 and VT2X were obtained by ammonium sulphate precipitation ( Figure 2 ) and were used for all subsequent DNA binding analyses . |
| 14 | The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies . |
| 15 | t Tests were used for two level factors ; ANOVA was employed for factors with several levels , and simple linear regression for continuous variables . |
| 16 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 17 | A subset of 24 films from the 60 used in Study 2 were used for 12 different judgment tasks in a study on risk perception ( Groeger & Chapman , 1992 , in preparation a ) . |
| 18 | At the same time , incentives including tax breaks were offered for innovative import-substitution industries . |
| 19 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus is invaluable in showing us the funeral ceremonies that were offered for some important person around 1400 BC . |
| 20 | By this method we demonstrated that specific sequences neighbouring position 26 and also certain structural parameters in the tRNA were needed for efficient enzymatic formation of m 2 2G26 ( 20 ) . |
| 21 | The prop-room became crowded with elderly men ; stage-hands and fly-men , none of whom were needed for this particular production but who were there just the same , heating cans of baked beans in a saucepan on the fire . |
| 22 | Twenty five patients with acute liver failure were measured for hepatic venous pressure gradient as an index of portal pressure during the course of a transjugular liver biopsy . |
| 23 | It happened as bride Cathy and her sister Andree from Holywood were going for some official pictures for their album . |
| 24 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 25 | Twenty four cases with RP ( 16 Koch pouches and eight pelvic pouches ) and 21 controls were compared for eight clinical variables . |
| 26 | On April 2 higher prices , including the doubling , trebling and even quadrupling of the prices of many basic food stuffs , were introduced for many retail goods and transportation and communications services . |
| 27 | Now brackets were n't invented for algebra , they were invented for these normal numbers that we play with . |
| 28 | AT LEAST 10 people were arrested for alleged electoral offences in Northern Ireland yesterday and police searched houses in several parts of Belfast . |
| 29 | The Friern site did not have planning permission for development , the frontage of the hospital was a listed building , and large areas were zoned for public open space by the planning authority . |
| 30 | Still birth ratios by preceding birth interval were computed for one developed country ( Hungary , 1967 ) based on reliable national vital statistics ( see Tables 16 and 17 ) . |