Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peta was intended only for local defence but there was also the Hei-Ho whose strength in Java was close on 25000 . |
| 2 | Her wound was checked regularly for excess drainage but none was detected . |
| 3 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 4 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 5 | Modigliani was blamed later for encouraging Soutine to drink , but Soutine already had a taste for drink when he came to Paris . |
| 6 | Even the mirror on the back wall was designed specifically for this room . |
| 7 | The Firefly AS.6 was designed specifically for anti-submarine warfare , and became the FAA main type in that category until the Fairey Gannet arrived in 1955 . |
| 8 | He also found evidence , however , to support the contention that the country 's nuclear power programme was designed only for civilian power generation . |
| 9 | The original airstrip was designed only for short nights to the mainland in the days when the Foreign Office was encouraging the seduction of the Falklands by Argentina . ’ |
| 10 | Officials now say the map was designed purely for internal discussion . |
| 11 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 12 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 13 | Dame Flora was from South Shields , like Ridders , and was nominated unsuccessfully for supporting actress in Saratoga Trunk in 1946 . |
| 14 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 15 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 16 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 17 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 18 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 19 | AFTER Monday 's scramble in Southampton , John Major 's egg-splattered jacket was whisked away for dry cleaning . |
| 20 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 21 | Among the dead , apart from laymen like the mayor of York , were many priests and clerks , both seculars and regulars ; among the captured was William Ayermine , chief clerk of the chancery , who was ransomed subsequently for 2000 marks and lived to become bishop of Norwich in 1325 . |
| 22 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 23 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 24 | We have shown that it would be possible to measure pancreatic enzyme secretion and synthesis rates simultaneously if approximately 50 µCi of a C labelled amino acid tracer was infused intravenously for four hours together with secretin and cholecystokinin . |
| 25 | The blot was washed twice for 20 min in 2 SSC , 1% SDS at room temperature and then at 65°C in 0.2 SSC , 1% SDS for 20 min . |
| 26 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 27 | Glass was used exclusively for many years and the lenses were normally ground individually . |
| 28 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 29 | Vaccines were kept in a cold room in Abidjan , and limited supplies were kept at the clinic in a refrigerator that was used exclusively for this study . |
| 30 | Tinning was used either for decorative purposes , for example on Merovingian jewellery , or for more practical purposes , such as providing a reflecting face on Roman bronze mirrors . |