Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] were [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile plans were made for a visit to Italy . |
| 2 | MOVES to set up a national watchdog to monitor the integrity and accuracy of government statistics gained momentum yesterday when plans were announced for a meeting to draw up firm proposals , writes Rosie Waterhouse . |
| 3 | Also affected was the Mill Arts Centre where concert-goers were waiting for the evening 's performance to begin … |
| 4 | A hint of the depth of feeling in Stockport appeared in the Stockport Advertiser on 4th June 1856 , when tenders were invited for the building of a new grammar school in Shaw Heath . |
| 5 | There was no correlation between faecal fat ( g fat/24 hours ) and faecal bile acid ( µmol bile acid/ 24 hours ) excretion in the patient group as a whole or when patients were stratified for the presence or absence of liver disease ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 6 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 7 | But there could have been a little more hope if Huddersfield referee Steve Bell had given a penalty when David Cork was manhandled to the ground in the six yard box when Quakers were looking for an equaliser . |
| 8 | Our earliest known inhabitant , " Hailing Man " , is now securely dated by the radiocarbon method to about 2000 B.C. His skeleton came to light in August 1912 when workmen were excavating for a sewage tank behind the railway station . |