Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men were remanded in custody for a week . |
| 2 | Paul Andrew Weddle , of Southend Road , Gateshead , and the 15-year-old boy were remanded in custody for a week by the town 's magistrates . |
| 3 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 4 | Translations in ‘ latin ’ languages like Spanish and Italian were completed in time for the promulgation of the test by the Holy Father on December 7th last year . |
| 5 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 6 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 7 | She would n't touch that glass again , not if Gerry were trapped in Purgatory for the rest of time , she would n't . |
| 8 | Visitors were torn between admiration for the art of Expressionism ( Stephanie Barron 's reconstruction excludes Cubism , Constructivism and Dada ) and shame at the barbarism of those who denounced , seized and destroyed these works of art . |
| 9 | In the 1870s leaders of the women 's movement , particularly teachers working for the extension of educational opportunities , were caught over support for the repeal campaign . |
| 10 | The Amoco Corporation has just agreed to pay compensation of 2.5 million francs to a syndicate of fishermen , who lost earnings when six boats from the port of Sibiril in northern Brittany were confined to port for a month . |
| 11 | Two illiterate Zulu youths , Zakhele Mbatha and Nicholas Dlamini , were sentenced to death for the murder . |
| 12 | By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland . |
| 13 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 14 | Tom and Faye 's parents were living in London for a year , and most of Bill 's family lived in Cairns , so there was to be no Russell or Hamilton family Christmas this year . |
| 15 | Some of the German soldiers who were acting as escort for the Poles , began to unsling their rifles apprehensively . |
| 16 | They were adopted by academics for the purpose of studying search . |
| 17 | This was disputed but the payments were made under protest for a number of years , and finally refused . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Wiltshire County Council explained : ‘ The dogs were made in Taiwan for an Andrex promotion but when the shipment arrived at Southampton the company decided they were sub-standard . |
| 19 | The repairs to the points ' circuits took a little longer and the points were operated by hand for a short time . |
| 20 | ( Simon and Garfunkel were used as models for the untalented couple of nerds played by Dustin and Warren Beatty in Ishtar twenty years later . ) |
| 21 | A human MYOD1 cDNA and the pIGF-I-R.8 cDNA were used as probes for the Myod-1 and Igf1r loci , respectively . |
| 22 | He was in the main street before nine o'clock and many of the shops were not yet open ; assistants were waiting in doorways for the boss to arrive with the keys . |
| 23 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 24 | Both sides of the huge tent were packed with queues for the buffet and the body of the tent was filled with people sipping glasses of wine . |
| 25 | Divorcee Rebecca Gunner and daughters Sarah and Nicola were flying from Amsterdam for a sunshine break on the Algarve , Portugal . |
| 26 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 27 | Between the 1950s and early 1970s , 140 million hectares in the region were brought under cultivation for the first time ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Not to be outdone … the man who created thunderbirds is performing his own one man show … explaining with the help of Lady Penelope 's nine foot long Pink Rolls Royce … and the original puppets who were brought to life for the first time over twenty five years ago . |
| 29 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 30 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |