Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nation-wide strike by lorry drivers was declared for early January , starting in Scotland , with also an overtime ban , and another threatened strike by oil-tanker drivers early in the new year . |
| 2 | Membership of political parties was banned for senior state officials in August 1991 , which effectively removed much of the influence of the MPRP [ see p. 38437 ] . |
| 3 | Muscle strips were precontracted by 10 µM acetylcholine and the mean amplitude of steady state contractions was measured for two minutes before and after the addition of leucocytes . |
| 4 | The effect of gastric fundectomy with hypergastrinaemia on the pancreas in rats was studied for 14 months . |
| 5 | The films in both phases were divided into six blocks of four junctions each and the order of presentation of blocks was randomized for each subject . |
| 6 | To find out whether cytokine treatment would modulate ICAM-1 expression in HT-29 and CaCo-2 cells , each of the cell lines was incubated for 24 hours in the absence or presence of IFN-γ ( 100 U/ml ) , IL-1Β ( 100 U/ml ) , or TNF-α ( 10 ng/ ml ) . |
| 7 | The conservative bias in estimating lives was maintained for new investment , and other highly conservative accounting practices generally had an effect similar to replacement cost depreciation . |
| 8 | A MEMBER of a West Indian ‘ Yardie ’ gang who tortured and sexually assaulted a businesswoman for two days was jailed for 10 years yesterday . |
| 9 | FATHER JAILED FOR BREAKING BABY 'S BONES A father who broke his baby son 's bones in six places was jailed for four years today . |
| 10 | A MAN who abused a young girl for four years was jailed for three months at Stirling Sheriff Court yesterday after a television programme had prompted the child to talk to her mother . |
| 11 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 12 | With these and other predictions in mind , and with reference to the relevant checklists , the following list of questions was selected for initial classroom observation . |
| 13 | The well-being of 71 dog and cat owners was monitored for ten months , and then compared to the health of 26 people who did n't own any animals . |
| 14 | A much larger proportion of resources was earmarked for social development , and less emphasis was given to encouraging manufacturing investment by means of fiscal incentives . |
| 15 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 16 | In June 1989 the Finance Minister , Chief Evaristus Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana , announced a budget of 593,000,000 maloti , of which 425,000,000 maloti was allocated for recurrent expenditure and 168,000,000 maloti for development . |
| 17 | On Thursday evening everyone wearing uniforms was admitted for half price and on Friday nights dancing was free for the RAF . |
| 18 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 19 | In the early 1820s the comparative material gathered from the United States by Liverpool abolitionists was used for parliamentary purposes . |
| 20 | The Augmentations structure of local receivers and auditors was preserved for certain branches of the revenue ; and very much more modern and efficient methods of accountancy were applied to most operations . |
| 21 | With the aid of the Registrars General , the survival of these doctors was monitored for ten years and causes of all deaths determined . |
| 22 | A ROBBER who held up banks as a protest against the destruction of the rainforests was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 23 | The number of symptoms was computed for each subject and the groups were compared for the proportion having 1 and 2 symptoms . |
| 24 | The number of insertions of Shepard ventilation tubes was recorded for each child , and it became apparent that ears treated with tubes alone required significantly more tubes ( mean 2.48 , SD 1.39 ) than those receiving tubes in combination with adenoidectomy ( 1.52 , 0.85 ; p=0.0001 ) . |
| 25 | A DRIVING examiner who groped four women as they took their L-tests was jailed for four months yesterday . |
| 26 | A SHANKILL Road man who molested and took obscene photographs of children was jailed for five years today . |
| 27 | A JILTED lover who drugged a young mother , tortured her with an electric shock gun and raped her in front of her children was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 28 | A TEENAGE rapist who committed a catalogue of sex and dishonesty offences after being freed on bail by magistrates was jailed for 11 years by two different Old Bailey judges yesterday . |
| 29 | His only surviving set of clothes was exhibited for many years at the London Inn on St. John 's Street , and the American dwarf Charles Stratton ( ‘ General Tom Thumb ’ ) visited Stamford in 1846 , 1859 , and with his wife Livinia Warren and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren in 1866 , to view the phenomenon . |
| 30 | This happened when a gift of clothes was left for one brownie , who cried : |