Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 2 | These arrangements , however , only affect policies that were applied for after the April 1987 deadline . |
| 3 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 4 | Police found the man they were looking for in a horsebox . |
| 5 | Anybody get what we were looking for in the , yes you should ? |
| 6 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 7 | Bangladeshi infants were cared for in a consistently rich sensory environment ; Welsh infants , in contrast , were more likely to experience alternating periods of high and low sensory input . |
| 8 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 9 | Edith died in 1871 and Maud and her sister Kathleen were cared for by a nurse and governess . |
| 10 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 11 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 12 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 13 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 14 | Baseline differences were allowed for in the follow up analyses by examining changes from baseline . |
| 15 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 16 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 17 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 18 | The potentially confounding variables of age , alcohol consumption , and medication were controlled for in a logistic regression model , with the binary variable depression versus all other diagnoses as the dependent variable , and systolic and diastolic blood pressure as independent variables . |
| 19 | The other arts were catered for in the music room with organ and harpsichord , and the library , including fine bookcases by Adam . |
| 20 | No we did n't buy tyres , no they were tyre mileage rates and erm mileage was the , tyres were paid for on the mileage run . |
| 21 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 22 | Similarly , organized bodies of men walked the marshes of the Thames , setting out in the early morning mist to assess the repairs required , which were paid for by a charge known as ‘ wallscot ’ or ‘ scottage ’ . |
| 23 | These , and the many other fine Victorian buildings in the city , were paid for by the fortunes made in the 19th century in the wool manufacturing and tailoring trades . |
| 24 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 25 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 26 | of the capital costs of the CTC programme , including those of the Telford college in my constituency , were paid for by the taxpayer ? |
| 27 | Those shows of identity were paid for by the pennies of miners and the barrier was imposed by the philistine , alien Government who do not know the difference between a work of art and a tin of baked beans . |
| 28 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 29 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 30 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |