Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 2 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
| 3 | It was announced in 1985 that the 450 were destined for the United States , but they have fallen victim to the moratorium operating in the USA . |
| 4 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |
| 5 | Contributions to a proposal for the production of a geochemical atlas of western Europe , including an inventory of regional geochemical surveys of western Europe and a summary of the vertical distribution of trace elements in floodplain sediments in the United Kingdom , were prepared for the WEGS Working Group . |
| 6 | In 1838 six locomotives were built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . |
| 7 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 8 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
| 9 | Similar consultation procedures were adopted for the Vauxhall Area Strategy , which in its draft form ( MDC , 1989c ) reflects community concerns for affordable housing and at least provides space for community based economic development plans . |
| 10 | The same qualities — mechanical strength , chemical inertness and infrared transparency — were the reasons why diamond windows were selected for the NASA space-probes sent to Venus in 1978 . |
| 11 | FOUR athletes from Plessington Catholic High School , Bebington , were selected for the Merseyside County teams to compete in the Isle of Man — Paul Mort , Christopher Hamilton , Anthony Dunne and Joanne Madden . |
| 12 | Thousands were made for the US Navy and Paul Garber filed his patent in August 1944 to pre-date all the subsequent claims to be ‘ first ’ with the present day concept of the steerable kite . |
| 13 | ( For computational reasons scaling factors were used for the Marshall and Bayes formulae to avoid underflow ) . |
| 14 | In addition , some of Lear 's lithographs were copied for the Penny Magazine where they illustrate articles referring to ‘ Gould 's birds ’ , but do not mention Lear . |
| 15 | The fourteen streamlined double-deckers were bought for the Squires Gate route in 1935 , on which they spent most of their working lives until its closure in 1961 . |
| 16 | Three watercolours depicting Kora-kora from Gebe , North Moluccas by Alphonse Pellion , a warrior from Gebe by Jaques , and a cuscus by A. Prevost were executed for the Louise de Saulces de Freycinet 1817 voyage of discovery and were subsequently published as illustrations to the official account Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du Roi execute sur les corvettes de l'Uranie et la Physicienne ( Paris , 1824–44 ) . |
| 17 | The largest cuts — which were proposed for the North Sea cod and haddock — amounted to only 15 per cent . |
| 18 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 19 | Cotton goods were woven for the Belfast merchants . |
| 20 | It was cloudy enough to require full IFR flight , and we were cleared for the ILS at Vigo , but had to refuse since the VOR/DME there was out of order and there is no additional locator beacon to find the beam . |
| 21 | We were cleared for the ILS at Porto while still at FL070 ( it 's not that busy ! ) and given the QNH . |
| 22 | David Waddington , the home secretary , announced that he has asked the chief constable of the West Midlands to investigate the conviction of the Birmingham six , who were jailed for an IRA bombing 16 years ago . |
| 23 | The seven had been implicated in the bombings by confessions ( later discredited ) made under pressure by Gerard Conlon and Paul Hill , two of the " Guildford Four " who were imprisoned for the Guildford and Woolwich bombings [ see p. 27739 ] but who were released in October 1989 when their convictions were declared unsafe [ see p. 36983 ] . |
| 24 | The study was undertaken for the AA Foundation for Road Safety Research by the department of Psychology and the transportation Research Group at the University of Southampton . |
| 25 | George 's funeral was arranged for the Wednesday morning . |
| 26 | On about 89 mins Deane put the ball in the net , but the goal was disallowed for a Wallace push on a defender . |
| 27 | A similar but more complicated arrangement of alternatively spliced exons was reported for the Drosophila muscle MHC ( 15 ) , which showed that multiple isoforms could exist with only small differences in apparent molecular weight . |
| 28 | It was designed for the London and North Western Railway by J.P . |
| 29 | The garden was designed for the Stroud based Meningitus Trust . |
| 30 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |