Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Group , jointly financed by the DES and CGLI , was duly established for a three-year period , and its remit is fourfold : to review existing provision ; to identify any overlap or gaps which may exist ; to identify an appropriate integrated and progressive pattern of schemes and awards ; and to make recommendations to the appropriate validating bodies . |
| 2 | Some of their football was remarkably composed for a Third Division side in adversity . |
| 3 | Although the evidence for these flights is little better than anecdotal , sufficient information is available in his published and private papers to make possible the construction of a reproduction of the latter machine , which was successfully flown for a television film in 1972 . |
| 4 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 5 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 6 | This was all designed for a specific purpose . |
| 7 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 8 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 9 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 11 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 12 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 13 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 14 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 15 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 16 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 17 | A STEWARTSTOWN housewife who struck an Army officer on the face was conditionally discharged for a year at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday for assault . |
| 18 | Brine , who admitted two charges of being drunk and disorderly and failing to surrender to bail , was conditionally discharged for a year . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON Harrier Ruth Williams was just pipped for a hat-trick of victories in the Mandale Harriers Cyril Elliott Memorial meeting at Middlesbrough on Saturday . |
| 20 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 21 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 22 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 23 | This was not achieved for a number of reasons . |
| 24 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 25 | SUN-SEEKING Mr Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was NOT needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain . |
| 26 | That was the fate of the worker on the Anglo American farm estate Vergelegen , dismissed for asking his employers why he was not paid for a public holiday . |
| 27 | The Council was generally elected for a six-year term , but the 1990 elections were called after those of 1986 were annulled on a technicality . |
| 28 | Preincubation was usually continued for a further 10 minutes , and then agonists were added to the suspensions and the change in cyclic AMP content recorded at intervals over the following 30 minutes . |
| 29 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 30 | Jean Braendlin , the Toulon prop , was yesterday banned for a year by the French Rugby Federation for kicking a grounded opponent on Saturday . |