Example sentences of "for [Wh det] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 2 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 3 | For what followed was very different . |
| 4 | After 20 minutes the officers accepted a glass of wine from their enforced hostess and one , until restrained by the other , even began to write out a receipt for what had been taken . |
| 5 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 6 | Not anger for what he had suffered , but a deep and terrible rage for what had been inflicted upon others . |
| 7 | But there was a sadness in Alina 's eyes now , unlike anything that he 'd seen there before ; a sadness not for what had been , but for what could never be . |
| 8 | Since the early 1960s there had been a movement for what had been described as organization development ( OD ) . |
| 9 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 10 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 11 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 12 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 13 | And since each book here can be traced to those whose decision it was to discard , it is important to emphasise that no personal blame is implied , and that the responsibility for what occurred is not his necessarily , but of those who employed him . |