Example sentences of "that was [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen years ago , Zilog Corp with the Z80 , Micropro International Corp with WordStar , Digital Research Inc with CP/M , Software Arts Inc with VisiCalc , Wang Laboratories Inc with its office systems , ruled the low end of the industry — the end that was poised for explosive growth over the next decade : where are they now ? |
| 2 | In a shocked instant she saw it : had she seized the moment that was lost for ever now , had she spoken to Frere , unfolded the unhappy fate in store for him , it would have spelled disaster . |
| 3 | But that girl that was sacked for pinching what was it ? |
| 4 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 5 | In 1842 he wrote out a short sketch of his theory , and in 1844 a substantial essay that was intended for publication only if ( as he now feared ) he should die prematurely . |
| 6 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 7 | The Labour movement supported the Bolsheviks in their struggle and when the freighter Jolly George berthed in the London Docks the dockers refused to load a munitions cargo that was destined for Poland . |
| 8 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 9 | So , Darwin 's attempt to integrate evolutionary and physiological biology contributed indirectly to the unification that was called for in Wilson 's 1900 programme and that genetics was to secure . |
| 10 | ( To appreciate the reorientation that was called for after this period , see Latourelle , 1968 , pp. 207–309 ; on Tradition , see Congar , 1966 , especially pp. 196–221 ; on the trials of biblical scholars , see Levie , 1961 . ) |
| 11 | He was an ever-present member of the team that was beaten for promotion by Newport County and a margin of three points in a thrilling campaign . |
| 12 | Is it too much to suppose that Saint Winifred herself moved her relics to the wagon that was bound for Ramsey ? |
| 13 | A mouth that was made for lies — and kissing . ’ |
| 14 | He reckoned in a destiny that was mapped for his career . |
| 15 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 16 | ‘ Bertie has been over to see us and has driven the car fitted with the engine management system he used in Donegal and the one that was fitted for the Ulster Rally . |
| 17 | I was told that the money that was threatened for housing associations which was an important element in structure , the government has in fact included it in the forthcoming budget , so that is encouraging , that aspect of it . |
| 18 | President Somoza personally pocketed the international funding that was raised for a national mental-health programme in 1972 . |
| 19 | The output from this analysis was summarised in the final report as a functional description of the filing systems , and used as the basis for the detailed user requirement that was prepared for the client . |
| 20 | Krauss notes that even in Rodin 's Three Nymphs , it was the same plaster model that was realized for each of the three figures . |
| 21 | He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded ; he 'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite , with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound . |
| 22 | But Pertwee was allowed one privilege that was reserved for very , very few . |
| 23 | Table 1.2 shows the contents of such a lattice that was obtained for the word its ( the graphical representation is shown in Fig 1.3 ) . |
| 24 | The fish have to be caught by longlining to preserve their quality for drying , and landings have not yet been at the level that was hoped for . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 26 | This will hatch quickly and eat both Ammophila 's own egg and the caterpillar that was provided for it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The railway line ran between various buildings and a high wooden fence that was used for part of its length for advertisement hoardings . |
| 29 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 30 | The recording system that was used for the baseline should be continued in exactly the same form . |