Example sentences of "were [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 2 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 3 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 4 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 5 | First of all , new languages were developed for the scientist and engineer who did not want to learn basic code . |
| 6 | With the aid of friendly Maoris , rough shelters were erected for the people and their belongings . |
| 7 | Using 1985 GHS data age , sex and disability , standardized consultation rates were calculated for the population aged 65 + . |
| 8 | Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women . |
| 9 | In slot-blot experiments with total DNA , the ratios ( signal obtained with mitochondrial probe/signal obtained with nuclear probe ) were calculated for the two strains and compared . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
| 12 | Postmen Andrew Holt , 23 , Jonathan Atkins , 19 , and Damon Shearer , 20 , all of Withernsea , were sacked for the prank . |
| 13 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 14 | Various schemes were mooted for the night , various groups drifted in and out . |
| 15 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A parachute mine had fallen on the shelter beneath the school , and various figures were given for the number killed there . |
| 20 | Three main reasons were given for the apparent lack of enthusiasm : board members found it difficult to spare additional time for this form of training ; they were doubtful of the ability of outside trainers to provide training in tune with local needs ; attempts by some education authorities to retain part of the training budget in order to supply such area sessions were seen by some members as demonstrating a lack of trust in the board 's ability to organise its own training . |
| 21 | No reasons were given for the dismissals . |
| 22 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 23 | In the year ending 30 September 1972 planning permissions were given for an estimated 76,000 such dwellings , but only 52,000 were started . |
| 24 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 25 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 29 | He contributed two articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1875–88 ) , for which his father also wrote , and thirty-nine articles to the eleventh edition ( 1910–11 ) , seven of which were revised for the fourteenth ( 1929 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |