Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 32 | Bath cup semi-final is just one of many big events this weekend … at Aintree they race the Grand National … while on the Thames they 'll be rowing the Boat Race … and today in London the Oxford and Cambridge crews were pulled together for the weigh-in … |
| 33 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
| 34 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 35 | A buffet lunch was laid on for the advisers , a chicken leg , various meat-filled butties , an apple and a large Kit-Kat . |
| 36 | A cheque for £3,017 was handed over for the Great Ormond Street Hospital . |
| 37 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 38 | PLANNING clearance was given yesterday for the shore-based part of a £1.5 billion gas project which will create spin-off contracts for firms in the offshore supply business , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 39 | PILOT error was blamed yesterday for a North Sea helicopter crash in which six men were killed . |
| 40 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 41 | After long-drawn-out bickering , the boy was taken away for a medical examination . |
| 42 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 43 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 44 | DARLINGTON Council was criticised yesterday for a continuing vermin problem in Hundens Lane . |
| 45 | Janice was put forward for the competition after raising money to set up the centre . |
| 46 | Simon was reaching out for the drum . |
| 47 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 48 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 49 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 50 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 51 | In many fields , however , the use of cash limits , monitoring and sub-contracting served only to stabilize employment levels ( Table 5.8 ) in the face of growing demand ( for instance for health services , unemployment benefit or policing ) , and permanent reductions were shown principally for the civil service and nationalized industries . |
| 52 | In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods . |
| 53 | Ho and Pottz were sent out for a sudden-death surf-off . |
| 54 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 55 | The recent calculations were done only for the collision of an electron and a positron , a collision common in particle accelerators . |
| 56 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 57 | More than 52 buildings were put forward for the award for the imaginative redesign of old buildings . |
| 58 | On top of that , French banks were paid twice for the same service , first by French traders as a result of the Helsinki agreement and , second , by foreign banks ( those that the drawers of Eurocheques banked with ) as a result of the Eurocheque system exempted by the Commission in 1984 . |
| 59 | The war was going well for the galactic empire . |
| 60 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |