Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | rabbits were rigorously protected for hundreds of years and soon spread far and wide to become the most familiar wild animal of the British mainland . |
| 2 | Okay Linfield and Bangor are probably two of the best teams in Irish football but the point I 'm making is that Carrick 's team deficiencies were blatantly exposed for all to see . |
| 3 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 4 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course we were only invited for ten days or so . ’ |
| 6 | The mixtures were gently rocked for two minutes and the lowest final concentration that gave macroscopic agglutination when read against a dark background was recorded . |
| 7 | Symptom scores were normally distributed for both sexes around a mean of 2.20 for men and 2.39 for women . |
| 8 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 9 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 10 | Metals such as bronze were generally retained for decorative use only and for sculpture , although there are individual examples of constructional needs , as at the Pantheon where the roof tiles and ceiling panels were of bronze . |
| 11 | The fittings were individually made for each example , with only a general standardisation . |
| 12 | The two City teams shared premises which housed social services and some health service staff ( the therapists but not , until late in the day , the CHMNs ) , but in Newark the social services and health service staff were separately housed for most of the study period . |
| 13 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 14 | The four partners — all Irish — had planned to be open for St Patrick 's Day but , as the photo shows , that did n't stop them unfurling their banner to indicate they were already prepared for next year . |
| 15 | With her claws , which were hardly designed for delicate manipulations , she displayed her sash , tapped the various items of equipment clipped inside the fabric . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , a clear regional pattern divided eastern England , where copyhold by inheritance prevailed , from the west , where copyholds were usually granted for three lives , occasionally fewer ; grants for term of years were rare . |
| 17 | You were always suited for this . ’ |
| 18 | With the advent of 110 mph running on the West Coast main line a number of Mk1 gangwayed full brakes ( fitted with B4 bogies ) coded NHA were specially maintained for high–speed running . |
| 19 | For costaining of acid phosphatase the sections were thereafter incubated for one hour at 37°C in the following substrate solution : 2 ml Naphthol AS-MX Phosphate acid ( Sigma 388-B ) , 2 ml 2.5 M acetate buffer ( pH 5.2 ) , 46 ml distilled water , and Fast Garnet GBC , 15 mg per 50 ml ( Sigma F-6504 ) . |
| 20 | Most of the chairs , however , were not subject to such private patronage , but they were still employed for political purposes , though usually on a somewhat higher political level than Dempster intended . |
| 21 | Financial control was centralized under one accounting officer , the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence , with subordinate Deputy Under-Secretaries to oversee the individual Service votes , which were still retained for administrative convenience , but could be adjusted to conform to Defence , as opposed to single Service , priorities . |
| 22 | After a tour in February 1989 of Soviet psychiatric hospitals a US delegation reported that , although some improvements had been made , people were still hospitalized for political reasons and recommended that the Soviet Union should not be readmitted to the World Psychiatric Association ( WPA — for October 1989 Soviet readmission see p. 36980 ) . |
| 23 | Stephen Jones , 34 , a welder of Stopgate Lane , Fazakerley , and Paul Miller , 33 , of Ashbank Road , Norris Green , were both jailed for six months . |
| 24 | Spencer , and another former Strangeways inmate , Andrew Nelson , 22 , who was among four men acquitted of riot , were both jailed for 18 months for contempt of court after threats to jurors and their families . |
| 25 | In the end we were both arrested for several crimes . |
| 26 | In a perverse way , losing their best player lifted the ‘ Stiffs ’ and they came more into the game , although Micky Deere and Terry Wade were both booked for negative play . |
| 27 | Although gastrectomy specimens were carefully examined for possible endocrine cell abnormalities , quantitative estimation of endocrine cell densities have been performed strictly in areas corresponding to the site of biopsy specimens during gastroscopy . |
| 28 | All over the world , rocks of this antiquity were carefully searched for organic remains . |
| 29 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 30 | First , press advertisements were traditionally used for all levels of appointments . |