Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 2 | But the ill-fated journey was captured for posterity in an extraordinary collection of photographs . |
| 3 | His withdrawal was unobtrusive , but it was of great import , for he was off to launch his ‘ Operation Rubicon ’ ; the long-awaited coup was scheduled for the night of 1–2 December . |
| 4 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 5 | The improvement in mean hearing threshold since the preoperative assessment was calculated for each child at each follow up . |
| 6 | Atropine from deadly nightshade , eserine from the ordeal bean of old Calabar , the alkaloids from the arrow poison curare all yielded useful medicines when their properties were studied carefully and the right dose was used for beneficial instead of destructive ends . |
| 7 | The moths suffered a rousing shaking as the right moment was watched for . |
| 8 | There were some striking differences among the non-right handers with lesions of the right hemisphere , depending on whether the left or the right hand was used for writing . |
| 9 | The private placing was handled for Delrina by First Marathon Securities Ltd , Marleau , Lemire Securities Inc , and Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd . |
| 10 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 11 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 12 | Remember , the Labour Party was formed for working people because we had an unsympathetic Tory government . |
| 13 | By 1934 the Labour Party was Preparing for the next election and the delegates at Southport resisted the attempts of the Socialist League to change the programme For Socialism and Peace into a radical appeal for a rapid transformation to socialism . |
| 14 | The elder son was working for the father as usual . |
| 15 | The usual critique was reserved for the evening , in view of the common abstraction . |
| 16 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 17 | The Scottish envoy was waiting for us , sitting on a fallen tree trunk , talking to one of his clerks who tactfully withdrew as we approached . |
| 18 | The ‘ quality ’ of the links which had been created in the semantic net were compared for the situation in which no Definition Table existed and for the situation in which a Definition Table did exist . |
| 19 | Our ‘ model ’ of the English language was prepared for teachers ; in what ways would it be implemented in the classroom ? |
| 20 | The top shelf was reserved for one of Mum 's wedding presents , a floral decorated bone china tea service , only used on very special occasions , which we all treated with great respect . |
| 21 | It is worth recalling that in Section 3.3 the analogous question was addressed for transport over a curved surface . |
| 22 | The chance of stardom beckoned after Maureen read that the Civic Theatre was looking for a corgi to appear alongside the Queen in the Roald Dahl play . |
| 23 | The direct approach was called for . |
| 24 | The commercial terminal was closed for some kind of police operation . |
| 25 | Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war . |
| 26 | The French government was praised for its stable and coherent economic policies since 1983 in the annual survey on that country of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) , published in April 1990 . |
| 27 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 28 | The improved treatment was investigated for patients whose only disorder was severe depression , and found to give much benefit . |
| 29 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 30 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |