Example sentences of "were [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , new languages were developed for the scientist and engineer who did not want to learn basic code . |
| 2 | Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women . |
| 3 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 4 | Using 1985 GHS data age , sex and disability , standardized consultation rates were calculated for the population aged 65 + . |
| 5 | Postmen Andrew Holt , 23 , Jonathan Atkins , 19 , and Damon Shearer , 20 , all of Withernsea , were sacked for the prank . |
| 6 | Various schemes were mooted for the night , various groups drifted in and out . |
| 7 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 8 | A parachute mine had fallen on the shelter beneath the school , and various figures were given for the number killed there . |
| 9 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 10 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 11 | Over 500 nominations were received for the competition organised by the Northern Development Company and sponsored by Training and Enterprise Councils in the North to find the region 's most conscientious workers . |
| 12 | The lack of a forestry tradition was strikingly demonstrated recently , when no tenders were received for the thinning of a Forestry Commission plantation in Lewis . |
| 13 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 14 | Reckless reported a large series of 154 diabetics who were examined for the presence of macrovascular complications with relation to actual lipoprotein levels ( Reckless et al , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | In addition , biopsies from lesions were examined for the presence of cytomegalovirus by immunohistology . |
| 16 | One hundred and fourteen patients were referred for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 17 | They organized a boys ' camp in such a way that two deliberately-created groups were formed for the experiment . |
| 18 | This financial wherewithal was translated into L1.5 billion ( £750,000 ; $1.5 million ) for restructuring the Museo Civico , including a system of climate control and new lighting while L2 billion ( £1 million ; $2 million ) were spent on the installation for the show itself ; of the sixty-eight paintings on show , twenty-three were conserved for the exhibition . |
| 19 | Their house was attacked by a mob and the family were interned for the duration of the war as ‘ enemy aliens ’ . |
| 20 | He gestured his dissent at this and in no time the crowd were clamouring for the umpire to reverse the decision , which he did . |
| 21 | They were favoured for the job because of their rapid loading , the cars hardly needing to stop ! |
| 22 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 23 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 24 | They used fishing rods and hooks , those cunning , black , nocturnal anglers , and they were blamed for the disappearance of booze from liquor cabinets and sugar from pantries . |
| 25 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 26 | Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline . |
| 27 | However , on Jan. 13 re-contras were blamed for the kidnapping of four policemen from the Rio Blanco police station . |
| 28 | Dubbed Britain 's answer to the Supremes , the Divas were tipped for the top . |
| 29 | He does not court publicity having witnessed other ministers who were tipped for the top and never made it . |
| 30 | Chiming clocks and the ringing of church bells were forbidden for the duration of hostilities , or until the invasion came . |