Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As public education developed in the middle of the nineteenth century , and as public funds were allocated for this purpose , it was considered that central government should oversee what was taught in schools . |
| 2 | A whole class of cars were created for this concept . |
| 3 | Separate ratings were made for each item . |
| 4 | The same sequences were used for each task and video-tapes were made of each sequence . |
| 5 | Reference shapes were stored for each user , who input the 26 letters of the alphabet for this purpose . |
| 6 | Additionally , a presumptive positive result was recorded for any sample if three out of four of the sections examined were positive for the IS 6110 polymerase chain reaction . |
| 7 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 8 | Then an individualised reintroduction programme was designed for each patient , usually starting with rice or potato and lamb or chicken on the first week . |
| 9 | In the March 1990 general election ZANU-PF won 116 of the House of Assembly 's elective seats and Mugabe was re-elected for another term as President . |
| 10 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 11 | But all the wealth and all the lands of the Talliens could not provide the one element that Nora sought : the fragrance of the oaks — the smell of Normandy in spring ; for spring was gone for another year . |
| 12 | The commercial terminal was closed for some kind of police operation . |
| 13 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 14 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 15 | Three consecutive liver areas were evaluated for each specimen by one of us , under blind conditions . |
| 16 | At Cardiff , Newport and Swansea , docks and railway sidings were constructed for this export trade . |
| 17 | One to six paraffin embedded blocks were measured for each patient ( mean 2.5 blocks ) . |
| 18 | Forty crypt columns were analysed for each section of colon . |
| 19 | About 2,000 concordance lines were obtained for each test word , taken from a 22 million-token corpus . |
| 20 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 21 | The intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility showed good correlation and no systematic error was noted for this enumeration method in previous studies . |
| 22 | In the Shove case , the compensation was reduced for this reason by 7 per cent , a figure which had been agreed between the parties . |
| 23 | Univariate and multiple regression analysis was by SAS and Proc REG was used for all regression analysis . |
| 24 | The films in both phases were divided into six blocks of four junctions each and the order of presentation of blocks was randomized for each subject . |
| 25 | In 1919 a herdbook was established for this breed of Central and Upper Belgium and its name was changed to Blanc-Bleu or Witblauw in 1971 . |
| 26 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 27 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 28 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 29 | Matched pairs of applications were sent for each post — one with an English name and one with an Asian name . |
| 30 | So , Special Commissions of the Conference were called for this purpose in 1978 and 1985 . |