Example sentences of "it was [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 2 | And from that day it was done for both of us . ’ |
| 3 | In the event it was to continue for longer than could possibly have been envisaged . |
| 4 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 5 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 6 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 7 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 8 | It was searched for high and low . |
| 9 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 10 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |
| 11 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 12 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 13 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 14 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 15 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 16 | However , Indonesia in particular was reluctant to endorse the proposal and it was referred for further discussion at committee level . |
| 17 | It was conceded for rural workers in 1884 . |
| 18 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 19 | Either local cultivators and pastoralists were cleared from the land completely and it was reserved for European immigrants , or in some cases ( like Uganda and larger parts of Tanganyika ) local cultivators were encouraged , or forced , to grow crops for sale either as export crops or as food crops to feed the mining workforces in southern Africa ( for longer accounts of the processes of settler immigration and colonial policies , see Rodney 1972 ; Palmer & Parsons 1977 ) . |
| 20 | During April a Swedish-registered Zlin Z242L ( OATS 's parent company CSE Aviation is Swedish-owned , and the Swedish parent has a Zlin dealership ) spent a week in England , where it was evaluated for 23 flying hours by RAF personnel and also flown by OATS instructors . |
| 21 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 22 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 23 | Earl Godwine held it , and in the time of King Edward , as now , it was assessed for 12 hides . |
| 24 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 25 | At either stage , if there was considered to be a problem , then it was noted for later discussion . |
| 26 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | So it is fair to say it was granted for intellectual activities . |
| 28 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 29 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but now houses almost double that . |
| 30 | ‘ Appleton House only has 12–14 residents when it was built for 30 originally , ’ he said . |