Example sentences of "was [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " 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 A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only .
3 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 .
4 To develop a list of questions in a structured way as the basis for a second round of fact-finding , a root definition was formulated for each sub-system of the post-ERA model , and a series of second level models constructed .
5 The improvement in mean hearing threshold since the preoperative assessment was calculated for each child at each follow up .
6 The ratio of labelled ( S phase ) to total cells ( labelling index ) for the entire crypt , as well as ratios for each of the five equal compartments into which the crypt had been divided longitudinally , was calculated for each patient .
7 The mean difference in Hamilton scores between patients treated with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and those treated with tricyclic or related antidepressants ( treatment difference ) was calculated for each trial .
8 The mean number of errors made during each trial was calculated for each group .
9 To evaluate this parameter independently the mean stool frequency was calculated for each group at entry and during the study .
10 The ratio of radioactivity of ulcer area v intact mucosa was calculated for each group of rats .
11 The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series .
12 The coefficient of variation was calculated for each set of 10 tubes .
13 In addition , each column was divided into five equal compartments from the base ( compartment 1 ) to the mouth of the gland ( compartment 5 ) , and the ratio of labelled to total cells was calculated for each compartment .
14 The ratio of drop out rate of patients in the serotonin reuptake inhibitor group to that in the tricyclic and related antidepressant group ( odds ratio ) was calculated for each study .
15 A log-periodogram was calculated for each data set , and binned in groups of 2 ; the ensemble average has 22 independent periodogram points per power spectrum estimate .
16 Population attributable risk was calculated for maternal smoking during the past two weeks , not exclusively breast feeding on discharge from the obstetric hospital , sleeping prone , and the infant sharing a bed with another person ( table V ) .
17 The mixture was heated for 5 min at 70°C and then allowed to cool slowly to 20°C .
18 One patient ( man aged 69 ) in whom H pylori had successfully been eradicated was recalled for further study .
19 The Party was formed for those reasons .
20 This diet was consumed for six days .
21 In addition Gen. Herminio Fuenmayor , the Director of Military Intelligence ( DIM ) , was dismissed for alleged involvement in drug trafficking .
22 A YOUNG naval rating was dismissed for widespread drug abuse at his court martial at HMS Scotia , Pitreavie , Dunfermline yesterday .
23 He was dismissed for gross misconduct , which seems to have centred on drug taking and homosexual activities .
24 Gary Whitham , manager of the Jolly Giant in Lincoln , was dismissed for gross negligence after leaving the cash office unlocked .
25 The Professional 's wife , acting as Steward , was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job .
26 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 .
27 A nearby stream was polluted for 1,000 metres and 20 fish died .
28 The autoradiogram was exposed for 72 h .
29 It was an unworthily prosaic culmination of a momentous occasion in which , for once , the good in Welsh rugby was exposed for public consumption .
30 The autoradiogram was exposed for 60 minutes at minus 80°C .
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