Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] 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 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 4 | It was searched for high and low . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 12 | However , Indonesia in particular was reluctant to endorse the proposal and it was referred for further discussion at committee level . |
| 13 | It was conceded for rural workers in 1884 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Earl Godwine held it , and in the time of King Edward , as now , it was assessed for 12 hides . |
| 20 | At either stage , if there was considered to be a problem , then it was noted for later discussion . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So it is fair to say it was granted for intellectual activities . |
| 23 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 24 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but now houses almost double that . |
| 25 | ‘ Appleton House only has 12–14 residents when it was built for 30 originally , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | From Nibthwaite to Ulverston it was carried for 4/6 per ton . |
| 30 | 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 . |