Example sentences of "was [verb] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although it enshrined the idea that Spain would one day be ruled by a prince of the blood , the key concept was " one day " , for no date was specified for this event . |
| 32 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 33 | ‘ I was kept for this job . ’ |
| 34 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 35 | In 1919 a herdbook was established for this breed of Central and Upper Belgium and its name was changed to Blanc-Bleu or Witblauw in 1971 . |
| 36 | It was originally operated by the HIDB itself , but a marketing cooperative ( Lewis Livestock Ltd ) was established for this purpose in 1980 . |
| 37 | That would mean the SCU would almost certainly increase the players ' daily allowance , which was doubled for this tour from £5 to £10 a day . |
| 38 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 39 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |
| 40 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |
| 41 | It is this great variety of tasks that has made research into the production history of each individual aircraft so interesting , and the principal reason why the Mystère/Falcon 20 was chosen for this monograph . |
| 42 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |