Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 2 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 3 | Work started in February 1975 ; two MKIII , ex-Inter-City coaches were modified for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Thereafter , although the Florentines continued to import English wool , they did not carry it in their own ships , and in the 1480s proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa , with English ships having the monopoly of the carrying . |
| 5 | More detailed discussions were planned for the visit to Russia of US Secretary of State James Baker two weeks later . |
| 6 | Careful plans were laid for an effective national strike-breaking organization . |
| 7 | In Poplar , as elsewhere in the winter of 1902–03 , and in the still more severe distress of 1903–04 , public funds were opened for the ‘ relief of distress ’ , often sponsored by newspapers . |
| 8 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 9 | Survival rates at 30 days were compared for an intention-to-treat and an efficacy population . |
| 10 | While careful arrangements were made for the placement of every long-stay patient from Exminster , there was no direct reprovision of wards in the hospital as wards in the community . |
| 11 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 12 | As Manchukuo 's raw materials were exploited for the benefit of Japan 's industrial economy , the area became a centre for heavy industrial development . |
| 13 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 14 | Six towns of different sizes were selected for the research , representing different regions , different traffic situations and thus together representing the diversity of problems that one would expect to find across the country . |
| 15 | The biggish ones were kept for the doctors at Dunstan Hill Hospital , just outside Newcastle , where they monitored his progress and adjusted his drugs . |
| 16 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 17 | This was to be a temporary measure while further preparations were made for the erection of an Anderson Clyde ‘ Giant Colossus ’ gantry type crane which would work to both ship and vehicle . |
| 18 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 19 | In tax matters the Empire was indeed surprisingly decentralised , with taxes levied exclusively by the states until 1914 when imperial taxes were imposed for the first time . |
| 20 | When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Extra funds were earmarked for the reorganization of public administration in the police , the army , the judiciary and the civil and diplomatic services . |
| 23 | Separate designs were evolved for the very different conditions of forest and savannah . |
| 24 | The following goals were established for the ten month secondment period : |
| 25 | Separate Bills were introduced for the poll tax . |
| 26 | Six sites were shortlisted for the new buildings . |
| 27 | When serial washings were analysed for the presence of Ac-ASA , there was an exponential fall in concentration , compatible with removal of drug from the cell surface ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 28 | Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline . |
| 29 | Given the triumph of fundamentalist Islam in Iran and the strength of similar forces in Afghanistan , many who saw no justification for Soviet intervention in law in 1979 could see one on grounds of ‘ national security ’ : much as such justifications were offered for the flagrantly illegal annexations of western Poland , the Baltic republics , Bessarabia , northern Bukovina and parts of Finnish territory in 1939–40 . |
| 30 | The opening piece , Respighi 's symphonic poem Fountains of Rome , was subtly characterised and sensuously played , but the real fireworks were reserved for the second half of the concert . |