Example sentences of "[verb] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 2 | Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests . |
| 3 | Berry , from Bramerton , Norfolk , was originally convicted in 1983 of making electronic timers for detonating bombs which it was claimed were intended for use in Syria and the Lebanon . |
| 4 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 5 | Although some of the animals stolen in the Northern Band were sold for agricultural use , especially in Chilaw and the Western Province , a high proportion of those not ransomed were sold for beef in the Roman Catholic villages on the littoral , and more importantly , in Colombo . |
| 6 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 7 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 8 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 9 | Some 21 per cent of all flows into unemployment by men who had previously been employed were accounted for in this way , slightly more than were accounted for by redundancy ( 20 per cent ) or dissatisfaction with pay or conditions ( 19 per cent ) and considerably more than were accounted for by dismissals ( 10 per cent ) ( Wood , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 11 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 12 | Roughly how many kilometres of steel rails , besides engines and rolling stock , do you think were needed for building the Indian railways ? |
| 13 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 14 | John McKay ( Points of View , 15 February ) writes that Father James Morrow ‘ like the Pharisees , forgets that the laws he follows were made for man/woman and the social circumstances have to be considered when applying them ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 16 | The double-axe was an everyday implement , and yet the great majority of those that survive were intended for ritual use ; some were made of very thin sheet bronze , some were very large , some were very small , some were made of lead or of soft stone . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw babies flung out from windows and people who were burning were jumping for their lives . |