Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | Great collections were formed primarily for personal enjoyment . |
| 4 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 5 | Many of these works were intended primarily for other experts in the field and attracted little popular attention . |
| 6 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 7 | Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan . |
| 8 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 9 | Most patients ( n=123 ) were operated on for presumed ulcerative colitis but 10 ( 8% ) are now known to have Crohn 's disease and a further 10 ( 8% ) have certain features of Crohn 's disease and have been labelled indeterminate colitis . |
| 10 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 11 | Surely no supporter actually believed Bobby Charlton , Justin Fashanu and Tom Finney were turning out for United ? |
| 12 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 13 | Follow-up questions , particularly into critical areas , were drawn up for intensive two-day visits . |
| 14 | While the canal boatmen were away without their families the women who remained were drawn together for mutual support . |
| 15 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 16 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 17 | Occasionally other teachers who wanted to take " a cautious look " were brought in for specific purposes . |
| 18 | Hair was then set on rollers and dressed to achieve height on the crown and pieces were brought down for added softness . |
| 19 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 20 | However , at one stage , different conditions were laid down for different nationalities : a national plebiscite was demanded in order to ratify independence for Poland , Courland and Lithuania , whereas a vote of workers alone was required for the Ukraine , the Caucasus republics and Latvia . |
| 21 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 22 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 23 | Traditionally , these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting . |
| 24 | A ‘ Book of Hours ’ was the name given to such a prayerbook intended for private or family devotion , the term ‘ hours ’ indicating not an interval of sixty minutes , but less precise parts of the day that were set aside for religious and other duties . |
| 25 | The New Shed dealt with manufactured goods ( toys , groceries , hardware , etc. ) , the Old Down Shed with bulk traffic ( flour , grain , fresh fruit ) , and two special sheds were set aside for American and French imported goods . |
| 26 | The princess , who heads the fund-raising Princess Royal Trust for Carers , said the medical profession and other agencies must realise the old family structures , which for centuries saw people looking after relatives without outside assistance , were gone probably for good . |
| 27 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 28 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 29 | An exact parallel can be drawn with Spain , Portugal and Greece when they were admitted early for political and democratic reasons . |
| 30 | Kurecolor brush pens were tried out for on-the-spot sketching . |