Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kept for this job . ’ |
| 3 | During the later stages of the field surveys which were made for this Flora , the National Vegetation Classification project ( NVC ) was being carried out . |
| 4 | FLYING SCOTSMAN SERVICES have cancelled their two Welshman services which were planned for this month . |
| 5 | This reports the result of the vote and includes details of : the number and value of the shareholders of the class ; those present in person or by proxy ; the number and value of the holders of the class who voted for and against the scheme ( and whether in person or by proxy ) ; any members who abstained from voting ; and particulars of any proxies which were rejected for any reason by the chairman . |
| 6 | The most interesting item was a Q.V double florin which was sold for many times more than its 20p face value , leading the purchaser to complain ( with a smile ) about being ‘ ripped-off ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During the last century they came to be conducted largely by the police and lawyers instructed by them , who were replaced for most purposes by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 . |
| 9 | The EESA team consisted of the educational psychologist who originally proposed that the agency should be set up , a supervisor , and eight workers who were selected for such qualities as their apparent ability to empathize with their clients without seeming patronizing , and to deal with difficult situations . |
| 10 | Joanna was kept in hospital for 10 weeks , during which time she was tested for all kinds of illnesses . |
| 11 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 12 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 13 | ‘ But then the young man who was slotted for this spot had to back out . |
| 14 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 15 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 17 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 18 | It was like they were made for each other , she said , was n't it ? |
| 19 | Since these machines were for export , they were adapted for that market and so are unique . |
| 20 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 21 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 22 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 23 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 24 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 25 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 27 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 28 | It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time . |
| 29 | As long as they had been promptly informed he was covered for any eventuality . |
| 30 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |