Example sentences of "were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details were traced for over 30000 workers involved in the construction of the large oil terminals in the Shetland and Orkney islands in northern Scotland or employed offshore . |
| 2 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 3 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 4 | Comprehensive quality-assurance procedures for the onsite measurements were developed for this project . |
| 5 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 6 | The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing . |
| 7 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 8 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 9 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 10 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 11 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 12 | First of all , new languages were developed for the scientist and engineer who did not want to learn basic code . |
| 13 | As more and more uses were found for computers in business and commerce , as well as in science and engineering , even easier languages were developed for lay use . |
| 14 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 15 | With the aid of friendly Maoris , rough shelters were erected for the people and their belongings . |
| 16 | Adjusted rate ratios and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated for men and women separately by this method . |
| 17 | Using 1985 GHS data age , sex and disability , standardized consultation rates were calculated for the population aged 65 + . |
| 18 | Average scores for each nurse and resident were calculated for both collaboration and satisfaction , and their perceptions of alternative decision choices were assessed by asking them how much they agreed or disagreed that there was no alternative choice in the case of each specific patient . |
| 19 | Rolling totals were calculated for successive three year periods : in 1985–7 there were 91 homosexual men who had a negative test followed by a positive one ; in 1986–8 there were 58 such men ; in 1987–9 there were 60 ; in 1988–90 there were 84 ; and in 1989–91 there were 97 ( table III ) . |
| 20 | Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women . |
| 21 | Expected numbers were calculated for each group standardised for age , sex , and time period Observed numbers were treated as data from a Poisson distribution with mean equal to the number expected . |
| 22 | Sensitivity , specificity , and accuracy were calculated for each finding for each age group . |
| 23 | Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method . |
| 24 | Pooled estimates of treatment differences were calculated for all 49 studies and compared with the estimate derived from the 16 studies that presented standard deviations for either the 17 or 21 item Hamilton scale . |
| 25 | In slot-blot experiments with total DNA , the ratios ( signal obtained with mitochondrial probe/signal obtained with nuclear probe ) were calculated for the two strains and compared . |
| 26 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Using the method recommended by Dunlap , Jones and Bittner ( 1983 ) correlations were calculated for each subject individually across the 24 films used in this study , correlations were then averaged for the 48 subjects using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver & Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Coefficient of variation and root mean square of successive differences were calculated for 100 R-R intervals free of artefacts . |