Example sentences of "was [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Scargill says the Soviet pitmen 's present was intended for international purposes , but the Soviet democratic labour movement says it meant to ease the hardship of striking British miners . |
| 2 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 3 | The Party was formed for those reasons . |
| 4 | This diet was consumed for six days . |
| 5 | One portion of the homogenates was boiled for 10 minutes , centrifuged at 5000 g for 10 minutes and the supernatant stored at -20°C for the later determination of histamine . |
| 6 | A nearby stream was polluted for 1,000 metres and 20 fish died . |
| 7 | The autoradiogram was exposed for 60 minutes at minus 80°C . |
| 8 | Dino Dugonijic , was treated for facial injuries . |
| 9 | Claire , of Gipsy Hill , south-east London , needed 10 stitches and was treated for black eyes and severe bruises at King 's College Hospital . |
| 10 | A police spokeswoman said the driver , Fiona Bocking , 33 , of Donsey Bank , Marks Tey , was treated for minor injuries at Colchester General Hospital but not detained . |
| 11 | One civilian was treated for minor injuries , and was later arrested . |
| 12 | Gilbey , a marketing consultant , was treated for minor cuts and bruises . |
| 13 | Mr Souness was treated for 30 minutes and then transferred to a high-dependency , progressive care unit at Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle , near Manchester . |
| 14 | Knowledge of the stock market was limited for most dealers . |
| 15 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |
| 16 | ( a ) 4 , ( b ) 7 , ( c ) 21 - credit was given for approximate answers to the second and third . |
| 17 | Opportunity was given for other topics to be raised . |
| 18 | Each dose was given for 30 minutes . |
| 19 | No date was given for fresh elections . |
| 20 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 21 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 22 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken for 3 months and then discontinued by us . |
| 23 | The first session was arranged for 4 days later . |
| 24 | The mixture was homogenised for 30 seconds , diluted with 50 mM K 2 HPO 4 / hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide ( 1 g/ 5 ml ) , and sonicated for 30 seconds in an ice bath . |
| 25 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 26 | When a subject did not show a significant change during the clamp test , a glucose concentration of 2 mmol/l was assigned for statistical comparisons of glucose thresholds . |
| 27 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 28 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 29 | And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face . |
| 30 | Another prisoner was blinded for 48 hours by power hoses , ’ he claimed . |