Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 2 | This was abolished for all policies issued after 14 March 1984 . |
| 3 | It bore branch-coloured collar patches of rank ; these were replaced for all officers by subdued khaki patches by an order of April 1941 , to be implemented from October 1941 , but the outbreak of war disrupted this programme , and many photographs show uniforms still bearing coloured patches long after that date . |
| 4 | More were needed for this task than were ever recruited to work underground , and many Cornish youths who worked at the tin " stamps " as " buddle boys " never became adult miners . |
| 5 | He thought that Tite and other MPs considered Gothic to be dull , expensive , incongruous and associated with ‘ a peculiar religious sentiment ’ , and reminded Palmerston that originally Gothic was used for all building , not just churches . |
| 6 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 7 | Housing Acts in 1885 and 1890 eased local authority borrowing for housebuilding , and as a result £4.5 m. was borrowed for this purpose between 1890 and 1904 . |
| 8 | It is this great variety of tasks that has made research into the production history of each individual aircraft so interesting , and the principal reason why the Mystère/Falcon 20 was chosen for this monograph . |