Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mitcham Road and Penge depôts were each built for 25 cars , the South Metropolitan company spaciously provided accommodation for double the number of cars its fleet ever reached , presumably with other extensions still in mind . |
| 2 | Her colleagues came and went ; they had got younger and younger , it seemed , as time went by ; those who were career-minded departed for lusher pastures , more Susies and Karens took their places , giggling in the cloakroom , muddling up the reservation cards . |
| 3 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 4 | The film and the television scripts were all sent for approval to Laurent de Brunhoff , who now lives in Connecticut . |
| 5 | They were all written for The Lord of the Rings alone . |
| 6 | Neil Kinnock 's clothes , make-up , speeches , audiences , responses and , of course , policies were all decided for him . |
| 7 | The levels of smoking , alcohol consumption , and socioeconomic group , which were all asked for in the patient questionnaire , had no significant effect on control . |
| 8 | But the Home Secretary 's fraudulent attempt to imply that they were all destined for Heathrow does him no credit and should cause him shame . |
| 9 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 10 | 360 , when they were all demolished for the erection of a stone corridor villa and a large barn . |
| 11 | Det Insp Paul Green , Det Sgt Martyn Lowrie , and Det Con Stephen McLean were all praised for their investigation into an armed robbery in Bishop Auckland last January . |
| 12 | but those left were all spoken for . |
| 13 | This was not easy , and in the first three places at which he enquired there was no room , they were all spoken for . |
| 14 | In-service training , weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides . |
| 15 | The salary of the ophthalmic photographer , depreciation of the van and camera , running and servicing costs for the van , and the cost of the film and its processing were all accounted for in the calculation of the cost of the service . |
| 16 | She must write a note to each of them to tell them the families were safe as soon as they were all accounted for . |
| 17 | Hobbs , Hutchings , Hardstaff and Humphries played together for England in 1908 , for example , and Hassett , Hole , Harvey and Hill played for Australia in two matches of the Coronation series , Hunte , Holford , Hendriks and Hall were all picked for West Indies in 1966 , and Hedley Howarth , two Hadlees and Hastings played for New Zealand in 1974 . |
| 18 | The most significant gifts in Kabylia were those given for weddings , births , and circumcisions . |
| 19 | There were two within subject factors , judgment task and junction ( the ratings from the three different exemplars of each junction were first averaged for each subject ) |
| 20 | In this case all values from each experiment were first averaged for each stimulus and correlations between the measures were calculated across the 48 films . |
| 21 | These locus control regions ( LCR ) were first defined for the β-globin system ( 14,15 ) and their ability to orchestrate lineage specific expression of sequences linked in cis has made them key elements in the development of gene therapy technology . |
| 22 | Radiolabelled DNA fragments were first preincubated for 5 min at 37°C in the presence or absence of NCp7 or one of the mutants in buffer containing 30 mM Tris-Cl ( pH 7.5 ) , 60 mM NaCl and 0.2 mM MgCl 2 . |
| 23 | Those who failed to respond to vaccine ( concentration of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen <10 IU/l ; 14% of those vaccinated ) were first tested for antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen , a marker of past or current infection with hepatitis B. As can be seen from the table , most of those investigated ( 99% ) had negative results for antibodies to core antigen and were true non-responders . |
| 24 | They were first authorised for use in Britain during the Toxteth riots of 1981 . |
| 25 | Precision Studios were first registered for BS5750 in February 1991 . |
| 26 | Gary Mills and Tony Poole have protested their innocence ever since they were first arrested for the murder of Hensley Wiltshire four years ago . |
| 27 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 28 | Copper-plate engravings were first used for book illustration in England in 1540 , when Richard Jonas published a translation of a German work on childbirth , and the first copper-plate title-page came five years later , with Thomas Gemini 's Compendiosa totius anatomie delineato . |
| 29 | Self expandable steel braided endoprostheses were first used for the treatment of vascular and urological benign strictures , with good clinical results . |
| 30 | The question of whether he was negligent remained for trial if disputed by the barrister . |