Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms of 174 children who were evaluated for chronic constipation , are reported in this study together with the longterm outcome in 90 of them . |
| 2 | Hassan issued a public statement on Sept. 13 , 1989 , declaring that the hunger strikers were " not political detainees at all " but " common law detainees who were indicted for violent acts which harmed public security " . |
| 3 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 4 | This fundamentally optimistic interpretation of the world and its mysterious working was contested by the heirs of the Enlightenment of the previous century , who were looking for rational explanations and practical methods of applying them . |
| 5 | In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 6 | In an appeal to exiles to return to Togo to " contribute their quota to the construction of their country " , he offered a " general amnesty to all those who were sentenced for political offences or plots against the nation " . |
| 7 | Individuals who were expelled for political activity or failure to meet the fees — or simply for poor examination results — were given additional grounds for grievance , while the punishment of an entire college tended to strengthen student esprit de corps . |
| 8 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 9 | However , compensation would only go to " those who suffered unusually under Nazi terror , for example , those who were used for medical experiments " . |
| 10 | Who was jailed for passing secrets to the Guardian in 1984 ? |
| 11 | ‘ I remember bursting into tears and blowing my nose and saturating my tiny handkerchief so that it was no use for the rest of the day , ’ writes P. Atkinson , of The Green , West Cornforth , who was revising for mock O-levels at Stand Grammar School for Girls , in Manchester . |
| 12 | A social worker who was sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters , has won his appeal against dismissal . |
| 13 | Giles , who was working for British Midland Airways at Birmingham Airport had ingeniously calculated that he could hop on an early flight to Heathrow and meet up with us in London . |