Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 2 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 3 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 4 | A competition with a Hebridean holiday as a prize was run in conjunction with the exhibition , a more specialized competition for schools was organized with support from the Royal Bank of Scotland , and private views were arranged for specialist bodies and organizations . |
| 5 | In Southern Rhodesia so many Whites were withdrawn for war service , particularly in the Second World War , that Africans and mixed-race ‘ coloureds ’ had to be trained to do some of their jobs . |
| 6 | funds , funds were limited for school buildings . |
| 7 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 8 | Ten classrooms were gutted in the arson attack , and three fire fighters were treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 9 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
| 10 | None were referred for rib resection , an option often described in surgical publications . |
| 11 | Steady progress has been made with the implementation of non-advanced DATEC courses and in January and May 1981 461 students were registered for Certificate courses and 2,866 for Diploma courses . |
| 12 | A large number of vehicles were altered for war purposes and 400 20-ton goods wagons and 40 35-ton trolleys were built , as well as 1,350 general service road vehicles , both horse drawn and motor , 18 pounder gun-carriages and limbers , 50 packing cases for aeroplanes , motor and horse ambulances , 2,550 ambulance stretchers . |
| 13 | Also in June , right-wing extremists were blamed for bomb attacks on ( i ) a war museum in Pretoria ; ( ii ) the National Union of Mineworkers offices in Welkom [ see also pp. 37440-41 ] ; and ( iii ) two offices used by government ministers in the Transvaal . |
| 14 | Twenty four hours after transfection cells were harvested for CAT assays . |
| 15 | In the mid-1970's Zelaya was imprisoned for 2½ years for his part in the murders of two priests and five peasants who were agitating for land reform . |
| 16 | Building societies ' basic rules of operation were designed for home buyers to repay loans over periods of twenty to twenty-five years without over-committing themselves . |
| 17 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 18 | All patients were considered for skin po 2 monitoring at home . |
| 19 | Outpatients , with three or more bowel actions daily , passing liquid or semiformed stool were considered for trial entry . |
| 20 | The clamour begun earlier by the Japanese union had echoed around the world and seafarers ' unions in many countries were pressing for material recognition for the dangerous , difficult conditions in the Gulf . |
| 21 | The bill has already been modified by the Senate following amendments presented by various political groups who were pressing for tax reductions for buildings of artistic or historic interest which only generate a small income but which are expensive to maintain . |
| 22 | Specs like these were destined for file servers in large companies , or to grace the MD 's desk and be used rarely if at all . |
| 23 | Extracts and supernatants were assayed for bile acids using a fluorimetric enzymatic assay ( Sterognost 3α-flu , Nycomed AS , Oslo , Norway ) . |
| 24 | After two washes , the stained cells were assayed for fluorescence intensity on a FACScan cell sorter ( Becton Dickinson , Mountain View , CA , USA ) . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 26 | THE staff of the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Aberdeen 's Robert Gordon University were balloted for strike action yesterday in the growing dispute over the sacking of a senior lecturer . |
| 27 | Large numbers of offenders , mainly poor people , were presented for Forest offences . |
| 28 | Plans were prepared for trolleybus conversion on a large scale . |
| 29 | In the past , many patients were accepted for bile acid treatment without specific , gall stone related symptoms . |
| 30 | Sequences from flanking regions of the 16S rRNA gene , 259 bases upstream and 328 bases downstream , were searched for transcription signals , structural genes or other significant sequences based on the data available for eubacteria and other archaea . |