Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one . |
| 2 | It was condemned for its ‘ two-dimensional characters ’ ( Mayne 1961:316 ) , lack of ‘ moral passion ’ ( Bergonzi 1961:297 ) , lack of profundity ( Price 1961:332 ) , ‘ misanthropic spleen ’ , and smugness ( Hope 1961:1486 ) . |
| 3 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 4 | It initiated liquidation proceedings after the sum it was owed for components it had supplied reached £2.1 million . |
| 5 | It was compiled for Count Henry the Liberal of Champagne , by clerks of tidy but innovative mind , alert to the political potential in acquiring , recording and categorizing information . |
| 6 | It was created for a group of mums who felt their babies were too old for new mums but not yet ready for the rough and tumble of open houses . |
| 7 | It was created for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory , not for that of the parties to the agreement . |
| 8 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 9 | It was done for Harlech and LWT ( 1967 ) and for TVS and TSW ( 1981 ) in pre-evisting regions , and for Yorkshire TV ( 1967 ) and TV-AM ( 1981 ) with new franchises . |
| 10 | And it was done for the best , although I must admit it did n't turn out like that . |
| 11 | And from that day it was done for both of us . ’ |
| 12 | Albeit I think it was done for the parish council so . |
| 13 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 14 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 15 | To return to the ECSC Treaty , it was concluded for a period of 50 years only and is therefore due to expire in less than ten years from now . |
| 16 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 17 | It was argued for the defendants that the wife would not be liable to tax on the damages she received , while her lost income would have been taxable in her hands , and that therefore she should be awarded damages in respect of her net loss after deducting tax . |
| 18 | It was argued for the defendant , on the authority of Nicholson v. Revill , 4 Ad. & E. 675 , that a creditor could not release one joint and several debtor and hold another liable by reserving remedies . |
| 19 | It was argued for the defendant in the present appeal that Dobson v. General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Plc . |
| 20 | On appeal , it was argued for the miners that the instructions to turn back were unlawful , and the police had no power to require them to turn back . |
| 21 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 22 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 23 | It was searched for high and low . |
| 24 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 25 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 26 | It was prosecuted for obscenity by Ernest Pinard , the advocate who also enjoys the shabby fame of leading the case against Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 27 | A COUNCIL has tightened its safety procedures after it was prosecuted for cutting through an 11,000-volt cable . |
| 28 | It was earmarked for the admin course , we asked will you fund a student for the admin course . |
| 29 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 30 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |