Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 3 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 4 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 5 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 6 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 7 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 8 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 9 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 12 | However , Indonesia in particular was reluctant to endorse the proposal and it was referred for further discussion at committee level . |
| 13 | It was conceded for rural workers in 1884 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Either local cultivators and pastoralists were cleared from the land completely and it was reserved for European immigrants , or in some cases ( like Uganda and larger parts of Tanganyika ) local cultivators were encouraged , or forced , to grow crops for sale either as export crops or as food crops to feed the mining workforces in southern Africa ( for longer accounts of the processes of settler immigration and colonial policies , see Rodney 1972 ; Palmer & Parsons 1977 ) . |
| 16 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 17 | Earl Godwine held it , and in the time of King Edward , as now , it was assessed for 12 hides . |
| 18 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 19 | At either stage , if there was considered to be a problem , then it was noted for later discussion . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So it is fair to say it was granted for intellectual activities . |
| 22 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 23 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but now houses almost double that . |
| 24 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 25 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 26 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 27 | The government abolished the death penalty for wartime offences on Sept. 16 , almost 50 years after it was abolished for civilian offenders . |
| 28 | It was used for political obligations such as taxes and fines , for reward and increasingly for ordinary market exchange . |
| 29 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 30 | It was used for new stations at Edmonton ( 1928 ) and Saskatoon ( 1930s ) . |