Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 2 | Several desk studies were carried out for customers , mainly dealing with the market economics of mineral commodities . |
| 3 | Major land surveys were carried out for Wimpey Minerals at Isley and Newark and a further contract of 1/2500 maps for the Ordnance Survey was successfully completed . |
| 4 | Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 . |
| 5 | They were locked in their cells till 8.30 when they were let out for chapel . |
| 6 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 7 | Fron piled up 232–4 as Gwilym Williams ( 56 ) and Steve Jones ( 37 not out ) weighed in with useful contributions , and then Pwllheli were shot out for total of just 66 as Chris Tilston took 5–13 . |
| 8 | But here at Lord 's in 1992 , Pakistan 's first three were shot out for ducks , the scoreboard showing 18 for 3 after Chris Lewis had found the bat 's fatal edge three times while Sohail bravely carved and thumped 16 runs . |
| 9 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 10 | Fishermen reported hearing the explosion and bits of debris were washed up for months afterwards . |
| 11 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 12 | The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration . |
| 13 | The triumph of greed ; an Antiques Roadshow society in which our most prized assets were sold off for profit . |
| 14 | Well I mean , they were handed down for generations . |
| 15 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 16 | Then more of our staff were called up for service with Queen Alexandra 's Imperial Military Nursing Service . |
| 17 | There is inherent bias in this study , however , as these cases were not shown to be screen negative , and the age at which polyps were found merely reflects the age at which they were called up for screening . |
| 18 | The children were called in for tests after being treated by a paediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital who was suffering from TB . |
| 19 | Also as the name implies , all bodywork , roofs , gangways , roof tanks were marked up for repair as required and wheel wear and tyre thickness noted . |
| 20 | Two unqualified ancillary helpers were brought in for mornings only , even though all the children stayed all day from the new year on . |
| 21 | Hampers were laid on for picnics , parcels of treats supplied for midnight romps in Swiss Alpine dorms , and no child 's insatiable hunger went unsatisfied . |
| 22 | In the UK all Iraqis were from Jan. 19 required to have visas to enter the country , and strict registration procedures were laid down for Iraqis who were in the UK on limited leave ; as of Jan. 29 , out of 101 Iraqis detained since the beginning of the year 42 ( together with seven Palestinians ) were currently in detention awaiting deportation , 21 had left or had been deported and three had been released ; 35 serving members of the Iraqi armed forces were being held in military custody . |
| 23 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |
| 24 | She went with a young lady … to a small office where the documents were laid out for signing . |
| 25 | If , for instance , the chord were laid out for oboes and clarinets thus the resulting blend would be less satisfactory than this : in which the reedy oboe and the smoother clarinet tone are inextricably intermingled . |
| 26 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 27 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 28 | Extra appointments could be financed by the court 's customers paying higher charges when cases were set down for trial . |
| 29 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 30 | Boss William Courtney says many more people were cut off for non-payment , but the shares added 2p to 455p . |