Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 2 | The duties of the CCC , which was to work ‘ in close touch ’ with the Central Juvenile Employment Exchange , were to arrange for the vocational guidance of prospective school-leavers and to liaise with exchange officials in registering juveniles and in selecting applicants for interviews . |
| 3 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 4 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 5 | Three main reasons were given for the apparent lack of enthusiasm : board members found it difficult to spare additional time for this form of training ; they were doubtful of the ability of outside trainers to provide training in tune with local needs ; attempts by some education authorities to retain part of the training budget in order to supply such area sessions were seen by some members as demonstrating a lack of trust in the board 's ability to organise its own training . |
| 6 | In the year ending 30 September 1972 planning permissions were given for an estimated 76,000 such dwellings , but only 52,000 were started . |
| 7 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 8 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 9 | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President since 1980 , was returned to office unopposed when no other nominations were received for the presidential election scheduled for June 26 ; she was to begin her fourth four-year term on Aug. 1 , 1992 . |
| 10 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 11 | Only 45 patients ( 36% ) were referred for a nephrological opinion , an annual rate of 51 ( 95% confidence interval 32.8 to 60.2 ) per million total population , or 62.1 ( 45.3 to 83.1 ) per million adults . |
| 12 | He had some troublesome followers who were clamouring for a positive policy without being able to suggest one . |
| 13 | Sigua on Feb. 18 denied insinuations that the weapons were intended for the new Georgian National Guard , and claimed that his government was seeking to replenish Georgian Interior Ministry weapons stores depleted by confiscations ordered by the USSR Interior Ministry and by thefts perpetrated by paramilitary groups . |
| 14 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 15 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 16 | Probably the first time that tsunami were blamed for a particular deposit was in Sir Edward Bailey 's brilliant exposition of the origin of the Upper Jurassic boulder beds in eastern Scotland , discussed in the last chapter . |
| 17 | Delay times were rearranged for the consonant groups in the list for each trial so that particular consonant groups were not always associated with the same delay time . |
| 18 | The Serbian Foreign Minister and Montenegrin Interior Minister were nominated for the corresponding federal posts . |
| 19 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , the native pinewoods — one of the last extensive remnants of the north European forests — were looted for the English navy . |
| 20 | But , increasingly , films look like they were designed for the small screen . |
| 21 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 22 | During this stage quadratic harmonic potentials were included for the covalent geometry , a square-well quadratic term was used for the distances and dihedral restraints , and a quartic potential was used for the van der Waals term ( F- repel ) . |
| 23 | This carried them to the Plain of Finuval where the shattered remnants of the Elf armies were assembling for a desperate last stand . |
| 24 | Species that were numerous around the boat and which were caught for a cursory examination only ’ were released again alive , ‘ the operation ’ , Gould maintained , giving ‘ not the least pain to the bird , the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the beak . ’ |
| 25 | The fact that they were considered for the Swedish national side in 1965 cut no ice with discerning Athletico fans . |
| 26 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 27 | In turn , Amritsar became the depot for piece goods , copper , and brass which were destined for the Central Asian markets . |
| 28 | These were done for a particular customer that wanted them buffed . |
| 29 | Canary yellow , no. 108 , ochre , No. 184 and brown ochre , No. 182 were applied for the golden glazes on the coffee pot , cup and saucer , with an ultimate highlight of white . |
| 30 | At least in one case prayers were said for the brave men fighting on both sides . |