Example sentences of "was [verb] for [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reference to ‘ all the circumstances ’ was not included in the Bill , but had been in earlier legislation , and was reinstated for fear that the courts might read into the omission a legislative intention that was not truly held . |
| 2 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 3 | So I did n't make a loss but I did n't make a profit on the bit of space that I need that I was using for storage cos I thought it was only fair to the poor bloke . |
| 4 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 5 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 6 | He told immigration authorities he was on holiday and was admitted for 11 days during which time he was treated for typhoid and genital ulcers . |
| 7 | A driver whose vehicle collided with the parked car was treated for shock but otherwise unhurt . |
| 8 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 9 | This left him dreadfully depressed and he was treated for melancholia and insomnia . |
| 10 | She was referred for therapy and management help and within four months had improved dramatically in her relationship with her sons . |
| 11 | Ullathorne was booked for dissent and Wright coolly converted the spot kick himself . |
| 12 | She was angry at the time , and she was praying for guidance as to what to do with her life . |
| 13 | Her first task was to attend a workshop on Communication and Development , which was organised for Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries in Africa in Luanda , Angola , last July . |
| 14 | There were few peasant proprietors ( perhaps six per cent. ) but tenant farmers enjoyed the best customary tenure outside Catalonia and the Basque Provinces ; if rents were higher , the tenant could not be evicted ; he was compensated for improvement and his rents settled by arbitration . |
| 15 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 16 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 17 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he was looking for enthusiasm and his gut instinct for people . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps he was looking for danger where none existed , though his instinct told him he was n't . |
| 20 | Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares . |
| 21 | There was one major flaw in this inspired scheme , no Provision was made for maintenance or replacement . |
| 22 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 23 | I do n't think any of us have ever seen it my Lord , erm the erm , the just , the , in this was a case where you will find er that er a reference was made for guidance as to the scope of the broadcasting directive |
| 24 | The general rule is well established that if a person signs a document which contains contract terms , he/she is bound by those terms , provided that the document was presented for signature before the contract was concluded . |
| 25 | This area was selected for study because of the authors ' familiarity with it , the adequate rural-urban contrast and the availability of a suitable image . |
| 26 | at a time after the guest has arrived at the hotel , either the property in question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his servant refused to receive it , or the guest or some other guest acting on his behalf wished so to offer the property in question but , through the default of the proprietor or a servant of his , was unable to do so . |
| 27 | It was offered for sale and although the Corporation , who were always short of depôt space , were approached , they rented it as a mortuary . |
| 28 | The refluxed activity was corrected for decay and a baseline rejection was performed , and the area under the pH peaks calculated . |
| 29 | And beside Janequin and Sermisy Attaingnant brought out the songs of such younger men as the immensely prolific Pierre Certon and Sandrin , whose ‘ Doulce memoire ’ was transcribed for lute or keyboard all over Europe from Spain to Poland . |
| 30 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |