Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals must be made to the centre where the student was enrolled to study for the programme ; each centre will deal with the case in accordance with its appeals procedure . |
| 2 | In the adjoining two storey block nominal alterations were carried out to improve the Ground Floor Art Department , and substantial upgrading of the Kitchen was undertaken to cater for the increased requirements , involving replacement of all catering equipment and servery counters , improved washing-up facilities and new tiled floor and wall finishes . |
| 3 | His theory was developed to account for the ‘ fit ’ of the southern hemisphere continents , and the existence of clearly related fossil organisms found in continents which are today widely separated . |
| 4 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 5 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 6 | In the order of succession , the president of the Senate was empowered to substitute for the President during a temporary absence if the Vice-President was also absent . |
| 7 | After careful consideration , Fred Dunston explained the intolerable conditions to those concerned and it was decided to arrange for the return of the children to Bydown . |
| 8 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 9 | JUNE 20 : Today I was selected to play for the village . |
| 10 | Katya had been moved into a small room near the kitchens , which she shared with Esmereldi , and she was told to cook for the soldiers . |
| 11 | Mixed model analysis of variance was used to test for the effects of intervention . |
| 12 | The Doppler shift was used to compensate for the gravitational spectral shift of photons travelling along the tower . |
| 13 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 14 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 15 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if the member of parliament was induced to solicit for the removal of an acting officer , any failure to arrange the question satisfactorily would be taken in his constituency as a failure of political interest in London and evidence of a lack of effective power , which again could prove damaging at the next general election . |
| 17 | On several occasions , he was invited to play for the Roman Catholic Holy Cross football team in charity matches to raise funds for it . |
| 18 | In 1958 she was invited to work for the Gulbenkian Foundation where , as Director of Music she initiated an ambitious programme of activities , including the formation of the Gulbenkian orchestra , choir and ballet company . |
| 19 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 20 | This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC . |
| 21 | As the ideology of motherhood strengthened during the early twentieth century in response to the high infant mortality rate and the implications it was feared to have for the health and welfare of an imperial nation , so the pressures exerted on working class mothers increased . |
| 22 | β cell function was standardised to allow for the confounding effects of age and obesity . |
| 23 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 24 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 25 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 26 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |
| 27 | Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time . |
| 28 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 29 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 30 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |