Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enclosed glazed cabin was provided for the pilot and co-pilot , and a specious interior allowed for a navigation compartment complete with chart table , a wireless cabin , canteen , galley and sleeping berths . |
| 2 | This weapon was not as significant as it seemed : a two-thirds majority was needed for the vote to succeed ; the EC budget , despite the costs of the CAP , only amounted to one per cent of the Community 's GDP ; and , if the budget was rejected , the Commission would still have the right to spend money on a month-by-month basis . |
| 3 | The predominance of Latin in this sample reflects the fact that many letters were addressed to bishops , and that Latin was used for the more solemn and formal instruments emanating from her chancery . |
| 4 | I remember with horror a meeting in our village hall at which boy-scoutish enthusiasm was shown for the knot-tying , camp-fire , make-do-and-mend fun to be had out of getting things going again after the bomb . |
| 5 | A band outside began to play the " Marseillaise " and iced champagne was served for the guests to toast the emperor and the New Year . |
| 6 | There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants . |
| 7 | Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force . |
| 8 | This feeding was continued for a period after their release on the tenth day , in case they were unable to hunt . |
| 9 | He told the jury : ‘ This courtroom was used for the trial of Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady . |
| 10 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 11 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 12 | The Old Testament was written for the people of Israel — the people who looked back to Jacob ( = Israel ) as their common ancestor and to Abraham as the founder of their nation . |
| 13 | So , in addition to regulations for worship ( festivals , sacrifices , etc. ) , detailed guidance was given for the preservation of ritual purity . |
| 14 | During this stage quadratic harmonic potentials were included for the covalent geometry , a square-well quadratic term was used for the distances and dihedral restraints , and a quartic potential was used for the van der Waals term ( F- repel ) . |
| 15 | In Chapter 4 a no-arbitrage equation was derived for the relationship between the spot and futures prices of a market index . |
| 16 | This criterion was introduced for the benefit of an authority like Kirklees which runs the large institution of Huddersfield Polytechnic but which has a limited population and therefore a relatively small rate basis . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S new top judge was set for a clash with the Government last night after he called for SHORTER jail sentences . |
| 18 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 19 | The Tyne estuary was largely rehabilitated and further work was planned for the Wear , but the Tees estuary needed urgent attention despite substantial industrial effluent reductions in the 1970s/80s . |
| 20 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 21 | In patients who had undergone operation an χ 2 test was performed for the analysis of the possible association with mortality of the following variables : stage I-II v stage IV disease , histological subtype low/mixed grade or high grade , presence or absence of gastric serosal invasion , presence or absence of lymphoma in the margin of resection or contiguous extension of the lymphoma to nearby abdominal organs , or both , and tumour size over or under 10 cm . |
| 22 | This alleyway was shut for a few months and we Hello . |
| 23 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 24 | Situated at the head of the Cuckmere valley , on an impressive site in the heart of the Weald and protected by the great bend of the Cuckmere River , this site was chosen for an Augustinian priory in the 13th century and became part of the religious life of the time . |
| 25 | Jaq imagined arcane astromantic calculations and perversions of Tarot divination — conducted by Carnelian , the Tarot-sneak ? — before this planet was chosen for the first emergence of the entity . |
| 26 | This sample was provided for the project by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and was in turn drawn from a larger sample of 500 households which the Executive had used for their own survey of housing patterns in the city ( cf. |
| 27 | This service was provided for a small proportion of the clients ( one in Ipswich and seven in Newham ) . |
| 28 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 29 | This debate was tabled for a Monday night when , for the replies , Labour Front-Bench Members greatly outnumber those on the Back Benches , which is not surprising as it is a one-line Whip night . |
| 30 | The final act of this Keele was to ballot for the sessions for Keele 1994 . |