Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 2 | Mr Kundera was strongly attacked for his view , and Mr Duroselle appears to be avoiding the issue . |
| 3 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 4 | Floodlighting was finally allowed for Cup ties from 1955 and for League games from 1956 . |
| 5 | Professor Emery was later retained for the defence , and permitted to conduct a more sophisticated analysis of the laboratory slides which revealed heart and lung defects . |
| 6 | There are still problems with central defence as Wetherall was partly to blame for the goals . |
| 7 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 8 | The United States was still pressing for close cooperation , while the West German Chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , had on several occasions already suggested some kind of Franco-German cooperation . |
| 9 | When the Direktor arrived back at his villa Madge Grimsilk was already waiting for him . |
| 10 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 11 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 12 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 13 | Travis was probably looking for her already . |
| 14 | Cautioning was originally intended for first time young offenders and those , like this man , guilty of a minor crime . |
| 15 | In some ways , however , Alexander was better prepared for the throne than either of his immediate predecessors . |
| 16 | As leader of the election campaign for the party as a whole , Kim was also blamed for the losses suffered by the other factions . |
| 17 | The DFP was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 of the elective seats [ see pp. 37448 ; 37527 ] . |
| 18 | After Edward II 's deposition Beaumont was well rewarded for his change in allegiance by a large grant of lands in Leicestershire , but the Anglo-Scottish treaty of Northampton of 1328 led him once more into opposition . |
| 19 | It was difficult to reach an agreed policy and the CDP was now waiting for the CNAA to make the next move' . |
| 20 | TYNESIDE was today braced for news of hundreds of redundancies in the wake of the Swan Hunter crisis . |
| 21 | RICO was originally intended for use against organized crime [ see p. 35503 ] , but had been used in 1988 in a number of financial malpractice cases including that of Drexel Burnham Lambert [ see below ] . |
| 22 | RICO was originally designed for organised crime , or racketeering . |
| 23 | BRITON Peter Heather was today jailed for 40 years in Bangkok for heroin smuggling . |
| 24 | And then the miracle Ellie was still praying for happened . |
| 25 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 26 | By the mid-seventeenth century the rather humid Cunningham region of northern Ayrshire in southwest Scotland was already noted for its Dunlop breed of dairy cattle ( and their Dunlop cheese ) . |
| 27 | That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed . |
| 28 | Diego Maradona was partly to blame for the brawl between Sevilla and Cadiz players at the end of Sunday 's Spanish league match , according to police . |
| 29 | Furthermore , they argued — with little effect — NIH was hard pressed for cash , and the costs of setting up a new institute would almost surely come out of the research budget . |
| 30 | In the five-page judgement , workshop manager William Brady was harshly criticised for his ‘ biased ’ approach . |