Example sentences of "was [verb] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But then the young man who was slotted for this spot had to back out . |
| 2 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 3 | The Northern Independent Schools trials were held at Bolton on Sunday , and a team was named for this Sunday 's match against Cheshire . |
| 4 | In that year A. G. MacGregor , who had previously proposed a petrographical classification of the Scottish Carboniferous basalts , was selected for this task . |
| 5 | The Crown 's powers of inclosure were greatly limited , and statutory definition was given to the commoners ' rights , which they could freely exercise under the supervision of the verderers : the Court of Verderers was reconstituted for this purpose . |
| 6 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 7 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 8 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 9 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 10 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 11 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 12 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 13 | Although in theory under the personal command of the new Regent , in fact Will Douglas led , grumbling at having to carry so many lofty ones along when what was needed for this attempt was the toughest of mosstroopers . |
| 14 | Simulated recogniser output was produced for this text , and the overlap program run on this data using the collocation dictionary as its source of information . |
| 15 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |
| 16 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 17 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 18 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 19 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |
| 20 | The fact that the defendant was intoxicated , and his awareness was impaired for this reason will not avail , since the Act expressly provides that it should not do so . |
| 21 | The intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility showed good correlation and no systematic error was noted for this enumeration method in previous studies . |
| 22 | In the Shove case , the compensation was reduced for this reason by 7 per cent , a figure which had been agreed between the parties . |
| 23 | Initially , a sleeve sensor was adapted for this purpose in adults and we have now developed the UOS sleeve sensor so that it is small enough for use in children . |
| 24 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 25 | Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate . |
| 26 | And so it was reasonable for Crane and Winters , who in the twenties was reaching for this style in his own poems , to call such writing ‘ imagist ’ . |
| 27 | The fast-growing , drought-resistant eucalyptus was imported for this purpose and the appearance of an entire region was transformed by the importation of an alien tree . |
| 28 | He was seconded for this trip as a back-up to Inspector Leeming . |
| 29 | Housing Acts in 1885 and 1890 eased local authority borrowing for housebuilding , and as a result £4.5 m. was borrowed for this purpose between 1890 and 1904 . |
| 30 | But meanwhile , who was to pay for this room ? |