Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Actually , shellac was perhaps the least important constituent ; the most important was slate dust , whose abrasive and gritty properties were needed for a rather unusual reason . |
| 32 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 33 | The 10p-containing hybrids were tested for the presence of ZNF33 sequences by PCR using primers 4113 and 4114 , which allow amplification from both ZNF33 loci , as demonstrated by the results of Figure 2 . |
| 34 | On March 28 such flights were resumed for the first time since the outbreak of war in the Gulf . |
| 35 | In this paper separate equations were constructed for the university and public sectors with the effect of the value of student support being higher in the public sector . |
| 36 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 37 | Broadly similar results were obtained for the cell kinetic data derived by counting pcna immunoreactive cells . |
| 38 | In June and July , the two months following the decision to make visitors to the Boboli Gardens pay at the gate , a total of 88,000 tickets were sold for a revenue of L364 million ( £173,300 ; $346,700 ) . |
| 39 | For the band knitted for the club demonstration , six stitches were used for every buttonhole with ten stitches between each one . |
| 40 | Whereas 106.7 boys were born for every 100 girls in 1985 , by 1990 the figure for boys had risen to 110.3 . |
| 41 | In 1838 six locomotives were built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | All three parties were braced for a possible photo-finish as the latest poll gave Labour a two-point lead — reduced from six in a similar survey a week ago . |
| 44 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |
| 45 | In the recent past , many thousands of these animals were exported for the pet trade . |
| 46 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 47 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |
| 48 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 49 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 50 | Special wall units with large panels were built for the occasion . |
| 51 | Banana splits still solved acute hunger problems but gorgeous undies were forgotten for the first time . |
| 52 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | He said staunch Tory newspapers were calling for the resignation of Chancellor Norman Lamont — to follow that of David Mellor . |
| 55 | In October 1946 elections were held for the Interim Legislature . |
| 56 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 57 | In Berlin the Jewish cemetery was damaged on Sept. 16 , and on Sept. 25 three men were arrested for the bombing on Aug. 31 of a memorial in Berlin dedicated to victims of the holocaust . |
| 58 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 59 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 60 | These raids were planned for the night of 14 December . |