Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 2 | It was especially looking for new business in Osaka . |
| 3 | Delivered autumn 1986 , she was especially built for comfortable cruising . |
| 4 | This was especially marked for long chain n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 5 | The big man was already reaching for another knife . |
| 6 | The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake . |
| 7 | When they reached the railway station it was already plying for new hire and the sound of an engine gathering up steam could be heard . |
| 8 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 9 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 10 | She was just asking for further grief . |
| 11 | Since with rare exceptions gold was so much more valuable than silver it was generally preferred for fine jewellery ( Plate D ) . |
| 12 | For the first time , preparatory Tutorial Classes became eligible for grant-aid and the Advanced Tutorial Class extending into a fourth year was formally recognised for financial support . |
| 13 | But the UK , the most down-market of the three centres , was always pleading for more banality , fearing to risk losing touch with the moderate market who comprised the core customers . |
| 14 | If the monkey pressed the correct letter it was rewarded with a peanut by a mechanical dispenser which was specially designed for this kind of food . |
| 15 | Professionals in sailmaking use a tool that was specially designed for this task . |
| 16 | The smugglers were taking a chance in using the Dunlin for this type of passage in mid-winter as she was hardly built for open sea work although she was sound enough . |
| 17 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 18 | The United States was still pressing for close cooperation , while the West German Chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , had on several occasions already suggested some kind of Franco-German cooperation . |
| 19 | And because the Bar was still crowded for some reason they were literally pushed together . |
| 20 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 21 | The mean number of dots/subarea ( sweat spot test score ) was also recorded for each subject . |
| 22 | Voting was also held for all State Assembly seats in Haryana and West Bengal and for a number of State Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 23 | Sykes 's system , which was also used for interlocking railway swing bridges across rivers , was applied widely in Britain and in the USA , Russia , and Japan . |
| 24 | The medium was also used for projecting news stories like the Allied bombing of the Ameriyah bunker near Baghdad . |
| 25 | The nomenclature of heterocyclic compounds was also deferred for further study . |
| 26 | At a later stage in the planning , accommodation was also provided for that part of the Computer Unit which moved in 1974 from London to temporary accommodation in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre and at King 's Buildings . |
| 27 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 28 | An open invitation was also agreed for any District Council representative to join meetings . |
| 29 | Cautioning was originally intended for first time young offenders and those , like this man , guilty of a minor crime . |
| 30 | One Blue Button was originally scheduled for each dealing table . |