Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She would n't touch that glass again , not if Gerry were trapped in Purgatory for the rest of time , she would n't . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two illiterate Zulu youths , Zakhele Mbatha and Nicholas Dlamini , were sentenced to death for the murder . |
| 11 | Some of the German soldiers who were acting as escort for the Poles , began to unsling their rifles apprehensively . |
| 12 | This was disputed but the payments were made under protest for a number of years , and finally refused . |
| 13 | The repairs to the points ' circuits took a little longer and the points were operated by hand for a short time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 16 | Between the 1950s and early 1970s , 140 million hectares in the region were brought under cultivation for the first time ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Plans were set in action for the upgrading of publishing and education programmes and rejuvenation of the soldiery as well as the more obvious building and social programmes . |
| 20 | Preparations were set in hand for a major effort on the Left Bank on March 6th , for which a new Army Corps , the VI Reserve , was earmarked ( representing , in terms of manpower , an outlay of rather more than the reserves Falkenhayn had withheld in February ) . |
| 21 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 22 | Professor Geoffrey Codd , a microbiologist from Dundee University and expert on blue-green algae said two cadets had been seriously ill and were detained in hospital for a week . |
| 23 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
| 24 | Oh I see I thought you were talking about toxophily for a minute . |
| 25 | They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain . |
| 26 | Of the 330 patients , 144 were excluded from analysis for the following reasons : asthma present , but referred for endoscopy because of gastrointestinal symptoms ( 56 ) ; chronic obstructive airways disease present rather than asthma ( 18 ) ; no asthma present ( 58 ) ; and declined offer to have endoscopy ( 12 ) . |
| 27 | None of the second to ninth defendants appeared at the hearing but all the arguments available to them were put by counsel for the ombudsman . |
| 28 | His initial duties were to assist with fieldwork for the magnetic survey of India and by the 1908–9 field season he was in charge of operations in south-west India . |
| 29 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 30 | ‘ But I do know they were killed in retaliation for the attack on the base camp . |