Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital records were sought for such patients who had died in care outside psychiatric hospitals . |
| 2 | The EESA team consisted of the educational psychologist who originally proposed that the agency should be set up , a supervisor , and eight workers who were selected for such qualities as their apparent ability to empathize with their clients without seeming patronizing , and to deal with difficult situations . |
| 3 | Great advances have been made since the early days of computing , when specialist skills were needed for such interaction . |
| 4 | At that time , the inhibition of enzymes was a particular focus of interest as a mechanism of action for drugs , and so nitrogen mustards were tested for such properties , without very striking results . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sections from the pancreatic tail were screened for such lesions . |
| 7 | ‘ If there was , it escaped notice , ’ said Owen , ‘ and no one was looking for such signs , well it might pass them by . |
| 8 | ‘ This car was built for such conditions . ’ |
| 9 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 10 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |