Example sentences of "[adv] were [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibuprofen 400 mg four times a day failed to control pain , and on 4 June 1991 dexamethasone 2 mg three times a day and cimetidine 800 mg once daily were started for symptom control . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 3 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 4 | The defendants alone were sued for inducing/procuring the employees to breach their contracts of employment . |
| 5 | Naturalists of any repute were soon expected to go on expeditions , and those who did not were criticised for their lack of field experience . |
| 6 | FOUR men who saved the life of a woman when they rescued her from her blazing home were honoured for their bravery yesterday . |
| 7 | When it was realised that the possible use of videos was assuming considerable significance those who answered this question positively were asked for examples as to where it would be helpful . |
| 8 | two changes in the swindon team to play at Portsmouth tomorrow Paul Bodin is back in the number three shirt … and Maskell returns to lead the attack both were rested for the cup game on Tuesday … |
| 9 | Now these clearly were designed for financial tabulation , er , for people who have very , very small handwriting . |
| 10 | Analyses comparing rates of non-smoking among study groups at each follow up were repeated for non-smokers at baseline rather than never smokers . |
| 11 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 12 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 13 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 14 | Figures released this week show that in the year to April 1 , people here were prosecuted for attempting to dupe the Social Security Agency — a seven per cent increase over the previous year . |
| 15 | Although clerks were barred by canon law from arms and bloodshed , and indeed were excommunicated for such offences in the thirteenth century , the pervasive propaganda mounted by the clergy in support of the king 's wars served to overwhelm these inhibitions in the early fourteenth century . |
| 16 | The plate , the plate ways , the railways they had then were built for horses to pull trucks on . |
| 17 | Ketamine hydrochloride ( Ketalar , Parke-Davis , United Kingdom ) and xylazin chloride ( Rompun , Bayer , Germany ) given intraperitoneally were used for general anaesthesia . |
| 18 | Recessed platinum ring electrodes 1 cm apart were used for intrinsic nerve stimulation ( impulses of 10 V , 0.5 ms duration , frequency 1–30 Hz for 1 second — see results ) . |
| 19 | Those Victorian Gothic buildings never were designed for cosiness . ’ |
| 20 | Women too were imprisoned for breach of bail conditions . |