Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUNCIL has tightened its safety procedures after it was prosecuted for cutting through an 11,000-volt cable . |
| 2 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 3 | It was converted for parachuting by having a rail bolted along the fuselage on to which the rings at the end of the static lines were fixed by a dog-lead clip . |
| 4 | However , it was criticized for continuing the country 's economic expansion programme — risking further damage to the environment and an increase in the gap between rich and poor — and for not offering concrete solutions or even new policy initiatives to tackle the country 's economic and social problems . |
| 5 | It was used for casting small , quite intricate sculpture pieces and often finished to imitate bronze . |
| 6 | It was used for making vessels based on bronze forms as well as for ornaments . |
| 7 | It was used for keeping accounts and also for dedicatory inscriptions . |
| 8 | The story reveals how , just as it was taken for granted that God 's authority should prevail throughout all life , so the use of Roman coins symbolised how much the Roman emperor 's authority prevailed throughout the Roman empire . |
| 9 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 10 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 11 | It was taken for granted , as we have also seen , that education was a social benefit , and therefore , in the new post-war democracy , something to which everyone was entitled . |
| 12 | It was taken for granted that where the ‘ bucks ’ predominated , the stick was the first resort , and the law an afterthought . |
| 13 | In these analyses linking grammatical gender with sex , it was taken for granted that the three genders — masculine , feminine and neuter — embodied a hierarchy of value . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , for all these differences , it was taken for granted in both agrarian and industrial Europe that society was split for its practical working into a small élite which ran things , and a large mass which was subordinate . |
| 15 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 16 | It was taken for granted that the introduction of women generally to any trade carried the risk of lowering wages ; basically because as we have seen , the wages paid for " women 's work " were so low . |
| 17 | He was offered constituencies ; it was taken for granted that he would stand for Parliament in the first post-war elections . |
| 18 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 19 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 20 | People moved — it was taken for granted . |
| 21 | It never occurred to Robbins that there was any need to describe the internal culture of higher education ; it was taken for granted that everyone knew what it was , or at least what it should be . |
| 22 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 23 | It was taken for granted , therefore , in the major peace conferences of the later seventeenth century that the arrangements must ensure that no important state was placed in a position of apparent inferiority to a rival . |
| 24 | This kind of information is difficult to acquire after things have gone out of general use and was often not recorded in the past because it was taken for granted . |
| 25 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |
| 26 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 27 | It failed to convince the nation that authoritarian methods were necessary to solve Britain 's economic crisis and prevent further political decline , and it was blamed for fomenting the violence and public disorder which became associated with its activities in the 1930s . |
| 28 | But it was criticised for failing to provide a contents index , and its pictures were said to lack consistency and style . |