Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intermediary stage was intended to last for three to five years . |
| 2 | Behind the road-builders trundled wagons laden with graded stone to be pounded and pulverised into place to make a road which was intended to last for centuries to come . |
| 3 | This was intended to run for a term of 15 years , yielding a Royalty of one-twelfth during the first two years , and a tenth part thereafter , " … sufficiently washed cleansed and made merchanteable … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 6 | She was recalled to account for what had happened . |
| 7 | On Oct. 21 an independent military trade union called " Shield " was formed to press for reform . |
| 8 | A pressure group known as the Disablement Income Group ( DIG ) was formed to campaign for better provision . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ironically , the rescue craft which arrived to haul her to safety was the boat she was helping to pay for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | THE FUNERAL PROCESSION WAS REPORTED TO STRETCH FOR AT LEAST 2 MILES . |
| 13 | Branson told employees that Virgin 's present staffing level was designed to allow for a modest expansion . |
| 14 | Speculation emerged in both Manila and Washington that the plan was designed to play for sufficient time to allow for a reversal of the Senate 's decision after the election of its new President in May 1992 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 17 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 18 | After calculation the number obtained was 48 in each group and 5% was added to compensate for non-evaluable patients . |
| 19 | But I loved their products and was dying to work for them . ’ |
| 20 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 21 | Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts . |
| 22 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 23 | The foreign trade growth rate was forecast to reach 18.8 per cent , of which the growth in exports was expected to account for 36 per cent and commercial imports 13.2 per cent . |
| 24 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 25 | This was at a time when the resistance of Japan was expected to continue for anything up to eighteen months later . |
| 26 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 27 | South Africa ( a founder FAO member which had withdrawn in 1964 ) was expected to apply for readmission , but withdrew after the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) had indicated that such a move was " premature " . |
| 28 | This was expected to provide for a President and National Assembly , to be elected for a five-year term under a multiparty system , with the President eligible for re-election once only . |
| 29 | The ruling RPT firmly rejected in May a return to a multiparty system government [ see p. 37809 ] , but after mass protests and rioting in Lomé in October , described as the worst disturbances in 23 years of one-party rule , the RPT central committee approved a proposal for the drafting of a new constitution which was expected to provide for political pluralism [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 30 | He was expected to practise for several hours a day , but was entrusted to supervise his own timetable . |