Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The lads were tremendous and the club was run for the players . |
| 2 | The most passionate prejudice was reserved for the Jews . |
| 3 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 4 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 5 | A problem of continuity of workload was posed for the lawyers ( Carlin 1962 ; Galanter 1974 ) . |
| 6 | During this stage quadratic harmonic potentials were included for the covalent geometry , a square-well quadratic term was used for the distances and dihedral restraints , and a quartic potential was used for the van der Waals term ( F- repel ) . |
| 7 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 8 | Its influence was analysed for the preparations with very low mucosal concentrations ( Dipentum ( n=6 ) , Salazopyrine ( n=4 ) Claversal 250 mg tablets ( n=3 ) ) . |
| 9 | The original coal and iron concerns of Butterley were expanded , and engineering work was undertaken for the railways . |
| 10 | This time the dish was repeated for the guests and the Shah had an artichoke . |
| 11 | Later , when schoolboy Alex Choudury , nine , presented Naina with a painting , her spontaneous kiss on his cheek was repeated for the cameras . |
| 12 | A jar was found for the snowdrops , then she made her way to the office , where she opened a bag of mail and sorted what were obviously accounts , from private letters . |
| 13 | Once oxygen and nitrogen appeared , the groundwork was laid for the beginnings of vegetation . |
| 14 | A $9 million charge was included for the costs of the October 17 earthquake . |
| 15 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 16 | Broad peaks were observed in these regions in d5'GMP at 7.2°C , although no assignment was reported for the peaks near 10p.p.m .. |
| 17 | The parade was organised for the players and the public but the day was even more special for 13-year-old Julian Stewart , a sufferer of cerebral palsy . |
| 18 | When a signal was given for the ladies to retire , leaving the men to their port and cigars , Sarah hurried to the kitchen , scurrying like a rabbit for shelter . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , by not extending the underskull over the chin , and by covering the lower part of the mask fabric in hair , enough jaw movement was permitted for the actors to convey speech with some realism . |
| 20 | A lively indication of the ways in which ivory could minister to the complex life-style of a young Egyptian ruler is provided by finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun who reigned during the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Apart from furnishing armlets and bracelets ivory was used for the handles of the king 's walking-stick , ostrich feather fan and whip . |
| 21 | The same method was applied for the ends of the coach and the partitions . |
| 22 | The final act of this Keele was to ballot for the sessions for Keele 1994 . |
| 23 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 24 | No reason was given for the changes . |
| 25 | No official reason was given for the dismissals but commentators interpreted them as adding to the shift of power from the police to the Army . |
| 26 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 27 | Loretta was paying for the tickets at the cash desk when she felt a hand on her shoulder . |
| 28 | He had narrowly beaten the Nigerian novelist , Chinua Achebe in May 1989 at the historic congress in Maastrich when the Soviet Union rejoined the writers ' international organization after opposing PEN for nearly seventy years , and the way was opened for the Czechs and Slovaks to rejoin . |
| 29 | But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 . |
| 30 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |