Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Third Republic had survived the Great War of 1914–18 but its institutions were blamed by many for the humiliation of 1940 . |
| 2 | ‘ For the competitions a number of new challenge trophies were presented including those for the men 's scratch championships which the club had not held in the past . |
| 3 | The railway works at Crewe were built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway , which became part of the London and North Western Railway three years later . |
| 4 | Similar arrangements were made in 1639 for the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak . |
| 5 | In the eastern counties Snell examined ( Cambridgeshire , Bedfordshire , Huntingdonshire , Northamptonshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Oxfordshire and Hampshire ) female real wages were falling after 1760 for the sharply declining numbers still required . |
| 6 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 7 | The cucumber and lettuce were left in overnight for the Peckoltias and the Whiptails . |
| 8 | These bunkers were constructed in 1966 for the express purpose of preventing Nicklaus from taking this route . |
| 9 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 10 | These powers were invoked in 1988 for the purpose of direct political censorship when the BBC and the IBA were ordered not to transmit any interviews with representatives of Sinn Fein , the Ulster Defence Association , the IRA or certain other extremist groups , or to broadcast any statement which incited support for such groups . |
| 11 | By this time too there were economies in staff and publications because of the war : Gleanings and Memoranda , the Constitutional Year Book and other semi-partisan pieces of literature were suspended in 1917 for the duration . |
| 12 | It was formed in 1939 for the same purpose as the NL , to amalgamate and strengthen various extreme right-wing and pro-fascist movements . |
| 13 | The painting , which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat standing next to a pair of curtains which have been cut out to form the shape of the man , was painted in 1966 for the present ( American ) owner 's parents who were friends of the artist . |
| 14 | The property was completed in 1990 for the Pyman family of shipbuilders . |
| 15 | De Niro 's other appointments have included : as designer , a friend of a production aide , whose normal line of work is women 's wear ; as site manager , a former Disney executive ; and as architect ( 20 were interviewed ) , the relatively unknown Lo-yi Chan , whose inexperience was blamed by some for the renovations to the Martinson building going $350,000 over budget . |
| 16 | The latest soul to hit the big screen is the unfortunate Derek Bentley , the mentally subnormal nineteen-year-old who was hanged in 1952 for the Croydon warehouse murder — a murder committed by ; his companion , sixteen-year-old Christopher Craig , who was too young to swing . |
| 17 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 18 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 19 | This was the Scottish equivalent of the GCE O level and was introduced in 1962 for the top 30% of school pupils . |
| 20 | As a result , an Intentional series , known as the Tasman Cup , was introduced in 1964 for the old 2½ litre formula . |
| 21 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 22 | The outstanding feature of these Roman operas was the splendour of the scenery and ingenuity of the scenic effects , which were devised by Bernini himself for Erminia and for Sant' Alessio when it was revived in 1634 for the entertainment of Wladyslaw IV 's brother . |
| 23 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 24 | In Spain , as part of the administrative reorganisation under the first Bourbon king , Philip V , a new secretariat of state was created in 1714 for the handling of foreign affairs . |
| 25 | This was repeated in 1977 for the Office of Fair Trading ( Consumer Credit Survey 1977 . |
| 26 | The second survey was conducted in 1976 for the Committee of Inquiry into the System of Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities ( Robinson Committee ) . |
| 27 | The third survey was conducted in 1985 for the Committee of Inquiry into the Conduct of Local Authority Business ( Widdicombe Committee ) . |
| 28 | Howell 's A Sequence for St. Michael was composed in 1961 for the 450th anniversary of the foundation of St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 29 | In the meantime he had resigned from the excise and moved with his family to London , where the firm of Aeneas Coffey & Sons was established in 1835 for the manufacture of the new still . |
| 30 | On the other hand , a pension fund was established in 1895 for the payment of pensions not exceeding 6s 10d pa. to the old and poor . |