Example sentences of "was [verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Coleman offered a glint of hope for Mr Bates , adding : ‘ This policy on ground-sharing was formed for very good reasons . |
| 2 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 3 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 4 | Between 1909 and 1914 , partly as a result of the Act , partly in continuation of a preceding trend , loan sanction was given for significantly more houses to more local authorities than before . |
| 5 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 6 | Mrs Shaw , 30 , claimed the train , with more than 100 passengers on board , was delayed for over five minutes . |
| 7 | About 500 people attended the lunch in the hotel ballroom where there was seating for only 400 . |
| 8 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 9 | Twenty one year old Simon Matthews was trapped for nearly four hours on rocks by the sea . |
| 10 | This was done for just 24 of the stimuli , all showing junctions . |
| 11 | Now she 's gone , and I do n't have to pay out , I 'm not badly off ; I 've saved a bit , and I 'd thought there would be no need to let the room , but if you and Mr Paul was looking for somewhere clean and comfortable , with good food , and reasonable as it 's yourselves , perhaps you 'd think it over . ’ |
| 12 | Such a laugh was made for very few . |
| 13 | Shamir insisted that the alliance was made for purely pragmatic reasons and that his government remained firmly opposed to the policy of " transfer " . |
| 14 | Millard ( 1988 ) estimates that on any day in 1981 the family doctor was caring for approximately 2 per cent of those aged 75 and over . |
| 15 | Northolt was the West London RAF airport that was used for both military and VIP civil flights . |
| 16 | Okapi '84 was used for almost two years at one of PCL 's site libraries . |
| 17 | A random zero sphygmomanometer was used for almost all measurements , and outsize cuffs were used when indicated by arm girth . |
| 18 | The legal position was not entirely clear : if the extract was short enough , then it was permissible to use it , because an extract from a book used purely for the purpose of comment did not constitute a breach of copyright , but in the present circumstances , when it was used for purely political purposes , I was not so sure . |
| 19 | At first , the technique was used for relatively simple objects , such as pendants and heads , but later it was applied to vases , statuettes and plaques . |
| 20 | Whereas before it was used for less damaging crosscountry skiing and walkers . |
| 21 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 22 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 23 | The portrait was sold for almost six thousand pounds at an auction in Cirencester today . |
| 24 | and if the house was , and if the house is , if say for argument sake that the house after you 've sold it , you 've only your , er fourteen or sixteen thousand pounds to pay then and you 've paid that off , right , and the house was sold for about forty thousand |
| 25 | The Mystic Hussars , as it was called , proved to be so popular and successful that it was performed for over 40 years . |
| 26 | Mauchline Ware , as it is known , irrespective of where it was made , was produced for over 100 years and in that time millions of items must have been manufactured and distributed around the world . |
| 27 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 28 | The line was closed for nearly three hours . |
| 29 | There were widespread arrests , popular professors were silenced , and St Petersburg University was closed for almost two years . |
| 30 | The line was closed for about half an hour while firemen dealt with the blaze . |