Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , new languages were developed for the scientist and engineer who did not want to learn basic code . |
| 2 | With the aid of friendly Maoris , rough shelters were erected for the people and their belongings . |
| 3 | Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women . |
| 4 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 5 | Using 1985 GHS data age , sex and disability , standardized consultation rates were calculated for the population aged 65 + . |
| 6 | Postmen Andrew Holt , 23 , Jonathan Atkins , 19 , and Damon Shearer , 20 , all of Withernsea , were sacked for the prank . |
| 7 | Various schemes were mooted for the night , various groups drifted in and out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 10 | A parachute mine had fallen on the shelter beneath the school , and various figures were given for the number killed there . |
| 11 | No reasons were given for the dismissals . |
| 12 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 13 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 14 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 15 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 16 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
| 17 | Over 500 nominations were received for the competition organised by the Northern Development Company and sponsored by Training and Enterprise Councils in the North to find the region 's most conscientious workers . |
| 18 | The lack of a forestry tradition was strikingly demonstrated recently , when no tenders were received for the thinning of a Forestry Commission plantation in Lewis . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 22 | Reckless reported a large series of 154 diabetics who were examined for the presence of macrovascular complications with relation to actual lipoprotein levels ( Reckless et al , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | In addition , biopsies from lesions were examined for the presence of cytomegalovirus by immunohistology . |
| 24 | So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust . |
| 25 | One hundred and fourteen patients were referred for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 26 | They organized a boys ' camp in such a way that two deliberately-created groups were formed for the experiment . |
| 27 | This financial wherewithal was translated into L1.5 billion ( £750,000 ; $1.5 million ) for restructuring the Museo Civico , including a system of climate control and new lighting while L2 billion ( £1 million ; $2 million ) were spent on the installation for the show itself ; of the sixty-eight paintings on show , twenty-three were conserved for the exhibition . |
| 28 | Their house was attacked by a mob and the family were interned for the duration of the war as ‘ enemy aliens ’ . |
| 29 | They were favoured for the job because of their rapid loading , the cars hardly needing to stop ! |
| 30 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |