Example sentences of "it was [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 32 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 33 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 34 | From Nibthwaite to Ulverston it was carried for 4/6 per ton . |
| 35 | Well it was marked for one and there was no milk , there was no er , there was an empty bottle in the thing , but no milk , as long as he do n't charge you for . |
| 36 | The government abolished the death penalty for wartime offences on Sept. 16 , almost 50 years after it was abolished for civilian offenders . |
| 37 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 38 | It was used for political obligations such as taxes and fines , for reward and increasingly for ordinary market exchange . |
| 39 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 40 | It was used for new stations at Edmonton ( 1928 ) and Saskatoon ( 1930s ) . |
| 41 | 19E was delicensed on 17 February , but instead of being put into store like the others , it was painted plain red and fitted with primitive snow brooms , which were no more than boards with bristles attached , fitted in place of the lifeguard gates and it was used for sweeping snow in the Croydon area until 31 March 1937 . |
| 42 | The Soviet Union says it was used for nuclear fuel . |
| 43 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 44 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 45 | Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives . |
| 46 | Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years . |
| 47 | Last night it was shown for one night only at a charity screening for St. Edward 's School in Oxford . |
| 48 | It was designed for middle class and well-to-do families . |
| 49 | It is sometimes known as a factotum title , since it was designed for general use , leaving the volume number to be filled in . |
| 50 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
| 51 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 52 | It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time . |
| 53 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
| 54 | As an example , it was found for one Latin American country that the mother 's individual characteristics were the most important determinants of neonatal mortality , but such housing conditions as type of water supply and sewage disposal were almost equally important . |
| 55 | It was missing for three years , until recovered unharmed from Bothwell Brig in Lanarkshire . |
| 56 | Prior to publication of the study , Rechem 's position had been that there was no proof that it was to blame for any toxic contamination outside the plant . |
| 57 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 58 | It was estimated for three and a half . |
| 59 | She knew she ought to tell Georg it was all over between them , that it was finished for good . |
| 60 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |