Example sentences of "was singled [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 2 | The Institution 's structure was then expanded from three to four Divisions , and building surveying was singled out for the first time , and referred to as IIIB ( Division III , Building ) . |
| 3 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 4 | But no one newspaper was singled out for criticism over coverage of the tour . |
| 5 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 6 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 7 | Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment . |
| 8 | Stephen Morrow played at left back against Albania and was singled out for praise by Bingham . |
| 9 | The USA was singled out for criticism over " its unneighbourly actions against Cuba " and urged to lift its economic embargo . |
| 10 | One of those mines in North Wales was singled out for praise by American consultants Boyds . |
| 11 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 12 | At the Strasbourg meeting of signatories of the Berne wild life convention , Britain was singled out for criticism over the Canford Heath development . |
| 13 | The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies . |
| 14 | The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies . |
| 15 | However , no one newspaper was singled out for criticism . |