Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions . |
| 2 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 3 | These men were the ministeriales , originally unfree tenants ; as the nobility became increasingly independent , the ministeriales were promoted to fill their place in the royal service , and they received increasingly valuable patronage and endowment ; abbots of imperial monasteries were even forbidden to distribute fiefs to free tenants — they were to be reserved for the unfree , the ministeriales . |
| 4 | Touches on the economic tiller were to be reserved for monetary policy — and changes in interest rates in particular . |
| 5 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 6 | finally , local councils were to be formed for each former borough , urban district or parish council area in the new unitary authorities , and where wanted in the metropolitan areas . |
| 7 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 8 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 9 | They were to be exchanged for Nasir Sa'id , a Palestinian serving a life sentence in Belgium for an attack in 1980 on Jewish children in Antwerp , in which one person was killed and 16 wounded . |
| 10 | ( To be more explicit : landowners were to be compensated for lost development value as it existed in 1948 , out of a fund for £300 million reserved for this purpose . ) |
| 11 | Enterprises were to be compensated for expenditure on equipment and construction and for outlay incurred because of the price reforms , and concessions were to be made in their hard-currency and social insurance contributions to the state budget . |
| 12 | Dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Vinelott said that the overriding purpose of para 24(5) , Sch 5 , FA 1975 was to ensure that the participators in a close company , which was entitled to an interest in possession , were to be treated for the purposes of capital transfer tax as if they had been entitled to interests in possession according to their rights and interests in the company . |
| 13 | Demands were to be made for a complete ban on foreign music on the radio and the exclusion of particular styles of western dress , but these outbursts of cultural nationalism were felt to be an inevitable part of a cultural renaissance . |
| 14 | Special provisions were to be made for agriculture and fisheries . |
| 15 | Political thought and social behaviour were to be scrutinised for signs of excessive westernisation by cadres in educational institutions , workplaces and homes . |
| 16 | What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ? |
| 17 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 18 | They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood . |
| 19 | Development plans were to be prepared for every area of the country , the powers being transferred away from the small district councils to the county and borough councils . |
| 20 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 21 | A decree issued on Sept. 16 stated that the profits of all wholly Omani-owned companies were to be taxed for the first time from the end of 1989 . |
| 22 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 23 | They said that they had difficulties with those designs which combined the two offices in one building , as the prizes were to be awarded for both parts . |
| 24 | Contracts were to be awarded for only three years , as the ITA hoped that by 1967 a fourth channel would be available and require more radical reorganization . |
| 25 | In Dawson v. Duffield ( 1936 K.B. ) , two lorries worth £475 were to be paid for by a combination of two ‘ trade-in ’ lorries worth £250 and the balance in cash . |
| 26 | Possessions were to be valued for their family associations , rather than their artistic or commercial value ; the Fairley household gods — three glorious red Beloush rugs , another huge Persian carpet woven with a deer-hunting scene , two handsome gilt-framed mirrors , portraits both human and animal , and an assortment of silver — were carried from one featureless Navy married quarters to the next , becoming chipped , torn and battered in the process , but no mention was ever made of their material worth or aesthetic quality . |
| 27 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 28 | The Scud attacks on Israel were , of course , ‘ terrorism ’ , he said , but the Israelis were to be congratulated for all their restraint . |
| 29 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 30 | As during previous eras , pre- and post-liberation the rights of the individual were to be sacrificed for the sake of maintaining social stability and avoiding da luan . |