Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 2 | No reasons were given for the dismissals . |
| 3 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 4 | ELEVEN people were treated for the effects of fumes after a truckload of chemicals caught fire yesterday at the M62-A1 junction in West Yorks . |
| 5 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 6 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 7 | OMON personnel [ see below ] stationed in Latvia were blamed for the attacks , in which the posts were burned down and several customs officials were beaten up . |
| 8 | Sets left over from the space ship in ‘ The Sensorites ’ were re-used for the interiors of crashed British Rocket Ship 201 , while Tristram Cary 's musique concrète from ‘ The Daleks ’ got its second airing as well . |
| 9 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 10 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 11 | For instance , the equality ( a — b ) ( c — d ) = ac + bd -ad -bc , acceptable to everyone whenever a , b , c , d were whole numbers with b less than a and d less than c , appeared to remain valid when particular irrational or complex numbers were substituted for the letters . |
| 12 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 13 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |
| 14 | Chariots were built for the races , painted lovely in red and azure |
| 15 | Volunteers with technical qualifications were accepted for the Engineers , Ordnance and the Service Corps . |
| 16 | In fact , the quack cancer therapy laetrile is nothing more than apricot kernels , and although high-sounding claims were made for the effects of nature 's cyanide on rampant cells , laetrile has proved useless . |
| 17 | Of these , a total of 71 safety proposals were made for the railways . |
| 18 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 19 | No estimates of perinatal mortality rates were made for the units where few referrals and subsequent perinatal deaths occurred . |
| 20 | Those guidelines were produced for the police national computer mark I. It is now almost five years since they were published . |
| 21 | white and light green oxide were used for the dabs of pale green on the lining fabric , and a scumble of pure white was used to highlight the grey around the backs of the shoes . |
| 22 | ‘ It tells us nothing in terms of lessons that can be learned , what sort of materials were used for the curtains , whether a sprinkler system was installed and whether they worked properly . |
| 23 | No ready-made solutions were offered for the problems posed . |
| 24 | Mrs Hayden said special prayers were offered for the boys during a service at the school yesterday . |
| 25 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 26 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 27 | Age specific incidence according to period and birth cohort — Age specific incidence rates were compared for the periods 1943–62 , 1963–77 , and 1978–87 . |
| 28 | No resources were allocated for the changes in procedures necessitated by the care programme approach ( Hudson , 1992 ) , although the Mental Illness Specific Grant was identified as a potential source of funding for new initiatives in social care which could be complementary to the introduction of care programming . |
| 29 | On May 8 the government announced the introduction of the death penalty for those convicted of murder or the attempted murder of magistrates , jurors , government ministers or security force commanders ; at the same time penalties of up to 10 years ' imprisonment and fines of up to GF10,000,000 ( about US$12,500 ) were introduced for the organizers of public demonstrations ending in violence . |
| 30 | Similar negative correlations were found for the logarithms of soluble bile acids and of precipitated calcium and phosphate ( respectively -0.80 and -0.60 , n=48 ; p<0.001 ) . |