Example sentences of "patients [was/were] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hundred and fourteen patients were referred for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 2 | There was no correlation between faecal fat ( g fat/24 hours ) and faecal bile acid ( µmol bile acid/ 24 hours ) excretion in the patient group as a whole or when patients were stratified for the presence or absence of liver disease ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 3 | Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months . |
| 4 | In 1989 , that is three years after the original gastroscopic screening , the same pernicious anaemia patients were called for a follow up gastroscopy . |
| 5 | Patients were considered for the trial on the basis of : ( 1 ) symptoms consistent with activity of the disease ( abdominal pain , diarrhoea , weight loss , anorexia , fever ) ; ( 2 ) two or more abnormal laboratory indices indicative of active disease ( erythrocyte sedimentation rate ( ESR ) >30 mm/h , haemoglobin concentration ( Hb ) <12 g/dl for men and <11.5 g/dl for women , C-reactive protein ( CRP ) >3 mg/l , platelet count >350000 cells/mm ) ; and ( 3 ) Van Hees activity index ( VHAI ) greater than 120 . |
| 6 | Between September 1986 and March 1988 , 2109 patients were recruited for the study . |
| 7 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |