Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 2 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 3 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 4 | The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing . |
| 5 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 6 | Several varieties of chalcedony , a silica in crystalline form , translucent and sometimes transparent , waxy to the touch , hard and extremely enduring , were treasured for jewellery , amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time . |
| 7 | A competition with a Hebridean holiday as a prize was run in conjunction with the exhibition , a more specialized competition for schools was organized with support from the Royal Bank of Scotland , and private views were arranged for specialist bodies and organizations . |
| 8 | In all five Oxfordshire homes were listed for closure … because there was n't the money to pay a five million pound bill for improvements . |
| 9 | In practice , many clergy found it as difficult to collect the full tithes as the Inland Revenue and Excise do their latter-day exactions ; increasingly the payments were commuted for cash rather than kind . |
| 10 | After typing errors had been corrected , the data were checked for range and consistency . |
| 11 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 12 | On a summons issued by solicitors for the interim government of Somalia , the Republic of Somalia was substituted as the plaintiff in the proceedings and directions were given for payment out of the money paid into court to the solicitors instructed by the interim government , unless cause was shown why it should not be so paid out . |
| 13 | Unit grants were given for housing — so much per house built . |
| 14 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |
| 15 | Dig out the 10,000 piece jigsaw of The Sky At Night that you were given for Christmas 10 years ago . |
| 16 | In Southern Rhodesia so many Whites were withdrawn for war service , particularly in the Second World War , that Africans and mixed-race ‘ coloureds ’ had to be trained to do some of their jobs . |
| 17 | ‘ It was like a scene in some stricken Bosnian town where people were scavaging for food , ’ said Bernie today , ‘ Demand is just unbelievable — I had to eventually leave my own telephone off the hook at midnight in order to get some sleep . |
| 18 | At this stage three armed groups were contending for power : ( i ) units of the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , led by Brig. -Gen . |
| 19 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 20 | funds , funds were limited for school buildings . |
| 21 | ‘ At Darlington county court in 1991 , 565 homes were repossessed for non-payment of mortgages , ’ the report says . |
| 22 | The sheep had huddled together to keep warm and as the drifts covered them the weaker animals were trampled and crushed beneath the stronger sheep that were struggling for air . |
| 23 | Turf and peat could be cut and dried for fuel and building materials , rough wood was used for firewood and construction , and reeds , rushes and bracken were gathered for bedding , roofing , flooring and building . |
| 24 | These allow an understanding of the range over which materials were gathered for use on the farm , reflecting the extent of human movement and interaction . |
| 25 | His companions , Philip Turner , 40 , Nigel Dee and Vaughan Thomas , all from the Barry area , were treated for exposure but were less seriously ill . |
| 26 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 27 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 28 | The lorry driver and a woman pedestrian were treated for shock , and heat-seeking cameras searched the rubble for other casualties , but Cornwall fire brigade said later everyone was accounted for . |
| 29 | While the survivors were treated for shock and hypothermia the acting coxswain used all his skill to keep the lifeboat in position and to minimise the violent motion caused by the sea conditions . |
| 30 | A couple in one house at Primrose Gardens were treated for shock and smoke inhalation . |