Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Those assigned to surgery were scheduled for the next available or convenient operating list . |
2 | With corporal punishment abolished as a judicially imposed sentence , and capital punishment diverted , at least for a time , to a committee room in Whitehall , the decks were cleared for the first real post-war scrutiny of penal policy and methods . |
3 | The Small Branch of the Year Award was won for the fourth consecutive year by Williston in North Dakota . |
4 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
5 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |