Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No reasons were given for the dismissals . |
| 4 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 5 | ELEVEN people were treated for the effects of fumes after a truckload of chemicals caught fire yesterday at the M62-A1 junction in West Yorks . |
| 6 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 7 | Smooth-talking Pat O'Rourke said companies were clamouring for the rights to screen the yarn , Lifeboys . |
| 8 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 9 | OMON personnel [ see below ] stationed in Latvia were blamed for the attacks , in which the posts were burned down and several customs officials were beaten up . |
| 10 | Sets left over from the space ship in ‘ The Sensorites ’ were re-used for the interiors of crashed British Rocket Ship 201 , while Tristram Cary 's musique concrète from ‘ The Daleks ’ got its second airing as well . |
| 11 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 12 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 13 | For instance , the equality ( a — b ) ( c — d ) = ac + bd -ad -bc , acceptable to everyone whenever a , b , c , d were whole numbers with b less than a and d less than c , appeared to remain valid when particular irrational or complex numbers were substituted for the letters . |
| 14 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 15 | Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday . |
| 16 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |
| 17 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 18 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 19 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 20 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 21 | Chariots were built for the races , painted lovely in red and azure |
| 22 | Volunteers with technical qualifications were accepted for the Engineers , Ordnance and the Service Corps . |
| 23 | In fact , the quack cancer therapy laetrile is nothing more than apricot kernels , and although high-sounding claims were made for the effects of nature 's cyanide on rampant cells , laetrile has proved useless . |
| 24 | Of these , a total of 71 safety proposals were made for the railways . |
| 25 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 26 | No estimates of perinatal mortality rates were made for the units where few referrals and subsequent perinatal deaths occurred . |
| 27 | Those guidelines were produced for the police national computer mark I. It is now almost five years since they were published . |
| 28 | white and light green oxide were used for the dabs of pale green on the lining fabric , and a scumble of pure white was used to highlight the grey around the backs of the shoes . |
| 29 | ‘ It tells us nothing in terms of lessons that can be learned , what sort of materials were used for the curtains , whether a sprinkler system was installed and whether they worked properly . |
| 30 | No ready-made solutions were offered for the problems posed . |