Example sentences of "was [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 2 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 3 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |
| 4 | Prepared jointly by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Works , with advice from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning on matters of site planning and layout , it was intended for the guidance of local authorities — who , it was presumed would be undertaking most of the post-war redevelopment . |
| 5 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 6 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 7 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 8 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 9 | It is on a much smaller scale than those held just after the Second World War when animals and livestock were included and a show ring was erected for the horse and pony events . |
| 10 | ft. building was erected for the machinists and cutters as well as for garment distribution . |
| 11 | The incremental area under the curve was calculated for the 30 minute period of stimulation in each individual patient by the trapezoid method , after subtraction of the mean basal for that patient . |
| 12 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 13 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 14 | On Sept. 27 a new coalition administration was formed for the Basque region , under the leadership of José Antonio Ardanza of the Basque National Party ( PNV ) as President ( lehendakari ) . |
| 15 | A verdict was given against a Liverpool Constable by a jury … in a case in which Mrs Jane Roche , wife of a bookmaker , claimed damages from Sergt. John Borrows ( who was dismissed for the malicious prosecution claim ) and Constable Ernest David Laurie of the Liverpool Police … |
| 16 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 17 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 18 | Sorry I do n't think that was heard for the record Mr . |
| 19 | His wife Rita was treated for the effects of smoke . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel . |
| 22 | Here permission was given for the construction of a large courtyard development of twenty-six houses and flats , quite out of character with the compact eighteenth-century house , in the belief that the profits yielded from the sale of the flats would go back into the house . |
| 23 | No reason was given for the departure of Rourke at the time , and this only served to intensify speculation . |
| 24 | The proposed temporary arrangements were explained and authority was given for the advance of £200 or £300 in temporary loans to some of the workmen to enable them to replace tools destroyed . |
| 25 | When a signal was given for the ladies to retire , leaving the men to their port and cigars , Sarah hurried to the kitchen , scurrying like a rabbit for shelter . |
| 26 | Finally , permission was given for the ferry to resume its scheduled services from 9am today . |
| 27 | No availability date was given for the new release . |
| 28 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has gone to Micro Focus Plc , Newbury , Berkshire for a Cobol compiler for its Series 400 fault-tolerant Unix multi-processor : it has opted for the Micro Focus Cobol/2 optimised for the hardware architecture to produce high performance native code ; no value was given for the agreement . |
| 29 | Although leave was given for the service of the writ , Scott J. was unwilling to allow the Anton Piller order to be served ( and immediately executed ) at the same time . |
| 30 | So , in addition to regulations for worship ( festivals , sacrifices , etc. ) , detailed guidance was given for the preservation of ritual purity . |