Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 2 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 3 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
| 4 | A lamb I had seen munching hay in the courtyard was duly killed for lunch . |
| 5 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 6 | With three overs left 35 were still needed ; Walsh was duly hammered for 16 , all but one to Lamb , but the penultimate over from Patterson yielded only six . |
| 7 | The Group , jointly financed by the DES and CGLI , was duly established for a three-year period , and its remit is fourfold : to review existing provision ; to identify any overlap or gaps which may exist ; to identify an appropriate integrated and progressive pattern of schemes and awards ; and to make recommendations to the appropriate validating bodies . |
| 8 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | Some of their football was remarkably composed for a Third Division side in adversity . |
| 10 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 11 | This was mostly accounted for by a ‘ natural ’ death-rate of 9 per cent per annum . |
| 12 | The item was keenly competed for by two telephone bidders but it was finally knocked down for £790 to a bidder in the saleroom . |
| 13 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 14 | However , his personal position had been weakened by the allegations of financial mismanagement under his government , and he was successfully challenged for the Siumut parliamentary leadership by Lars Emil Johansen , the Siumut chair . |
| 15 | Although the evidence for these flights is little better than anecdotal , sufficient information is available in his published and private papers to make possible the construction of a reproduction of the latter machine , which was successfully flown for a television film in 1972 . |
| 16 | In the US , rap has been pushed to the forefront of the political debate over censorship after a shop owner was successfully prosecuted for selling ‘ obscene ’ records by the 2 Live Crew . |
| 17 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 18 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 19 | The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures it was taking to enforce order . |
| 20 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
| 21 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 22 | Planning permission for a new kitchen was eventually granted for the listed building , and the wall between the dining room and kitchen has been partially knocked through to create a greater feeling of space . |
| 23 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 24 | This case followed a couple of weeks after the extensive coverage given to the case where a teacher was accused of raping a 15-year-old pupil but who was eventually jailed for unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 25 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 26 | Her grandfather , William Fordyce of Anchorthies , was a figure of scandal : a successful merchant and sometime baillie of Aberdeen , he was eventually convicted for his part in a kidnapping ring . |
| 27 | She was eventually sold for scrap . |
| 28 | ‘ And to think I was eventually sold for half-a-million ! ’ |
| 29 | Firemen originally thought that workmen who are refurbishing the building were trapped inside , but everyone was eventually accounted for . |
| 30 | Buzzing his curving chinaman ( googly ) , appealing alternately softly and urgently , bustling quickly back for the next one , and batting with great vigour ( he hit 166 sixes for his grade club ) , Martin was eventually chosen for NSW in 1956–57 . |