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 .
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