Example sentences of "[art] [noun] were [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 2 | The price the Jews were expected to pay for this help was cooperation and conformity . |
| 3 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 4 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 5 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 6 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 7 | ANTI-apartheid supporters around the world were told to prepare for the lifting of international sanctions against South Africa during an African National Congress conference yesterday . |
| 8 | Against this wage trend , the rising prices of the latter part of the century were bound to make for severe reductions in living standards . |
| 9 | At 8.00 p.m. on 16 July the trio were allowed to sail for the French island of New Caledonia . |
| 10 | For the lay reader , Geoffrey Boumphrey 's Town and country tomorrow ( 1940 ) had three sections : ‘ Things as they are ’ , ‘ Things as they could be ’ and ‘ Things as they should be ’ , and the contrasts were made to speak for themselves . |
| 11 | Centres approved to offer the unit were asked to tender for the pilot and Stevenson College , Anniesland College and QTAC , the business arm of Fife College , were selected to run it . |
| 12 | BL21(DE3) cells were transformed by each plasmid and the cells were grown at 37°C in an LB medium containing 100µg/ml ampicillin until A 600 reached 0.6 , at which time IPTG was added to a final concentration of 1.0mM and the cells were allowed to grow for an additional 3 hours . |