Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 2 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
| 3 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 4 | The company was forced to close its Redcar and Stockton shops and the Middlesbrough branches were demolished to make way for the Cleveland Centre . |
| 5 | I saw Mrs , and Mrs said they were aiming to raise money for the scanner appeal . |
| 6 | Certainly , a good deal of anti-foreigner sentiment was unleashed , first of all in Nanjing and then other major cities , and traditional prejudices were allowed to run riot for the Christmas period . |
| 7 | The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings . |
| 8 | In Communist China in the mid 1950's , all dogs , cats and birds were killed to save food for the people . |
| 9 | Down and Derry were poised to do battle for the trophy — or so everyone thought . |
| 10 | Some 40 other computer and telecommunications companies were poised to announce support for the new standard , including Lotus Development Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Northern Telecom Ltd and Siemens AG , the last two in their telephone systems . |
| 11 | The PWA went on to achieve an impressive record in building schools , civic buildings and hospitals , but more rapid and extensive programmes of public works were required to provide relief for the millions who remained unemployed . |
| 12 | Following the shooting of William Black , the most urgent task was to endeavour to organise support for an inquiry . |
| 13 | There were additional concerns in Europe , given that the SDI programme was designed to ensure immunity for the United States and that it might prejudice the US commitment to European security in the event of nuclear war . |
| 14 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 15 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 16 | The visitor was often allowed to pull the press and , at least in some places , in return for watching the setting of the type and the privilege of carrying away the souvenir , was expected to buy beer for the workmen . |
| 17 | Even as Mr Clinton prepared for his State of the Union address , the annual American equivalent of the Queen 's Speech , his administration was seeking to rally support for an economic plan which sparked the biggest fall in Wall Street stocks in 18 months . |
| 18 | Although the data collected were quite adequate for this purpose , no attempt was made to claim representativeness for the doorstep survey . |
| 19 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 20 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
| 21 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |
| 22 | The money was used to buy equipment for the garden . |
| 23 | For about six hundred years the port , ( or the earlier , less grand version , known as the Laghetto di Sant' Eustorgio , the little lake of Sant' Eustorgio , in roughly the same spot ) was used to deliver marble for the Duomo from the Visconti quarries at Candoglia in the Val d'Ossola which ends at Lake Maggiore . |
| 24 | Serious composers , such as John Cage , were more influenced by Eastern philosophy which was used to provide authority for the insertion of chance events in the performance of music . |
| 25 | The mill was originally run as part of the adjacent farm and , not surprisingly , was used to provide power for a number of other uses . |
| 26 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |
| 27 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 28 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 29 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 30 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |