Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 2 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 3 | If so , evil intent was sufficiently established for those blows to constitute assault in the absence of evidence of justification or any other exonerating factor . |
| 4 | As for wartime political activity , this was naturally inhibited for all the main parties by the electoral truce . |
| 5 | After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment . |
| 6 | The overall effect was extremely damaging for many companies in the cities and elsewhere : domestic demand was reduced ; the costs of borrowing rose ; public-sector contracts diminished ; exports became much more expensive . |
| 7 | W. 's chapter of misfortunes continued when , in September 1991 , Dr. M. suffered a heart attack and contact between him and W. was necessarily severed for some three months . |
| 8 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 9 | Using transactions data from January 1984 to September 1988 , the following regression equation was separately estimated for each of ten futures contracts : where V is the implied standard deviation of futures prices at time t , M t is the number of days to maturity , F t is the futures prices at time t and Ε is a disturbance term . |
| 10 | That October , when the M's cattle were brought in , it meant that Mrs M had to spend up to five hours a day working with them as Mr M was away teaching for much of the time . |
| 11 | Also , SHe did n't think Parmedes ' handiwork was exactly designed for such a pummelling . |
| 12 | The big man was already reaching for another knife . |
| 13 | Oh I was just looking for that . |
| 14 | I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future . |
| 15 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 16 | He had not asked , nor would he ever ask , what provision was normally made for these frequent and illicit journeys , the relays of horses , the hire , perhaps , of boats , transport for the cloth . |
| 17 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 18 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 19 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 20 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 21 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 22 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 23 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 24 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 25 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 26 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 27 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 28 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 29 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 30 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |