Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 2 | Some women did not register because they were discouraged from looking for paid work because of the poor state of the economy . |
| 3 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 4 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 5 | He has overhauled the legal aid system ; attacked the Bar 's 200-year-old monopoly ; moved towards a unified family court system ; introduced major changes in civil court procedures ; called for more black judges and women lawyers ; and removed magistrates who were disqualified from driving for twelve months after drink-driving convictions . |
| 6 | In twenty-six states ‘ Reds ’ were disqualified from running for office , working as civil servants , and some from holding passports or drawing unemployment money . |
| 7 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 8 | A review of the hospital notes of 570 diabetics registered with the relevant general practitioners identified 415 eligible patients , who were asked in writing for informed consent to enter the trial ( fig 3 ) . |
| 9 | On Sept. 8 , 1989 , Emmanuel Moigua and Kalilu Titangay , members of the Pan-African Union ( Panafu ) group were detained for calling for a week of anti-racist and anti-Zionist action , including a campaign against the influential Israeli-managed N. R. Scippa company which was involved in diamond and gold mining and in importing rice . |
| 10 | At the islands ' police headquarters they were detained for questioning for four and a half hours . |
| 11 | The wings were charged with meaning for the Victorians : based on the ancient Egyptian good-luck symbol , the winged globe , they were associated , too , with winged time , with Cupid and with the protection of guardian angels . |
| 12 | Greenshank were dashing about nervously in the shallows , as greenshanks do , small parties of elegant curlew sandpipers were busily feeding by probing the sand , and grey plovers were standing about watching for any small movements . |
| 13 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 14 | With time lost to the weather , England were faced with surviving for eight and three-quarter hours to draw the match , but Gooch and Rose fell quickly . |
| 15 | After Pontypool took similar action a decade ago , against California Golden Poppies in San Francisco , they were banned from touring for three years . |