Example sentences of "was [verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | One predominant reason was given for this low level of concern about professional development amongst arts teachers , although two very distinct responses were given . |
| 2 | ‘ But then the young man who was slotted for this spot had to back out . |
| 3 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 4 | I was looking for this blooming half thing sticking out ! |
| 5 | The Northern Independent Schools trials were held at Bolton on Sunday , and a team was named for this Sunday 's match against Cheshire . |
| 6 | Yeah , his amp 's got , yeah his amp was built for this particular type of er , I ca n't remember what bloody amp he 's got now there were no , no particularly flash like , you know , er , er , they were saying something to do with clipping , I think it 's to do with clipping they saying the power up , the power point 's alright as long as you do n't clip , because what happens is if the wave forms doing that |
| 7 | In that year A. G. MacGregor , who had previously proposed a petrographical classification of the Scottish Carboniferous basalts , was selected for this task . |
| 8 | The Shamir government was commended for this by Western leaders , and some commentators speculated that in the immediate post-war period the USA would reward Israel by refraining from putting on pressure over the Palestinian issue . |
| 9 | The Crown 's powers of inclosure were greatly limited , and statutory definition was given to the commoners ' rights , which they could freely exercise under the supervision of the verderers : the Court of Verderers was reconstituted for this purpose . |
| 10 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 11 | No special equipment was used for this nor were new rails substituted . |
| 12 | Soya milk was used for this ‘ control ’ without any investigation of whether the babies might be sensitive to soya proteins . |
| 13 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 14 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 15 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 16 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 17 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 18 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 19 | Although in theory under the personal command of the new Regent , in fact Will Douglas led , grumbling at having to carry so many lofty ones along when what was needed for this attempt was the toughest of mosstroopers . |
| 20 | Simulated recogniser output was produced for this text , and the overlap program run on this data using the collocation dictionary as its source of information . |
| 21 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |
| 22 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 23 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 24 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 25 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 26 | He was rewarded for this and more with a Bulgarian sentence of death and a British MBE . |
| 27 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |
| 28 | The fact that the defendant was intoxicated , and his awareness was impaired for this reason will not avail , since the Act expressly provides that it should not do so . |
| 29 | The intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility showed good correlation and no systematic error was noted for this enumeration method in previous studies . |
| 30 | In the Shove case , the compensation was reduced for this reason by 7 per cent , a figure which had been agreed between the parties . |