Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | They were adopted by academics for the purpose of studying search . |
| 4 | ( Simon and Garfunkel were used as models for the untalented couple of nerds played by Dustin and Warren Beatty in Ishtar twenty years later . ) |
| 5 | A human MYOD1 cDNA and the pIGF-I-R.8 cDNA were used as probes for the Myod-1 and Igf1r loci , respectively . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many of them were extended to territories for the foreign relations of which either the United Kingdom or the other party was responsible . |
| 9 | The company said it was inundated with bids for the 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs on offer . |
| 10 | THE Evening News was inundated with entries for a Thunderbirds competition to build the best Tracy Island after it was shown on Blue Peter . |
| 11 | The importance of youth was highlighted by proposals for an annual youth conference and the establishment of youth sections . |
| 12 | One of the last serious attempts to derive an attributable cost of membership of a CU was undertaken by Grinols for the United Kingdom in 1984 . |
| 13 | PETER Shreeves was sacked by Spurs for the second time in six years yesterday . |
| 14 | The threat of widespread strikes in the engineering industry was averted after negotiators for the IG Metall union and the employers ' federation Gesamtmetall in northern Baden-Württemberg agreed at midnight on May 17-18 on a 21-month settlement . |
| 15 | He said yesterday that he was approached by headhunters for the £150,000 a year stock exchange job in August . |
| 16 | The meeting was preceded by calls for the disbandment of the organization but ended with an agreement to review existing COMECON financial and trade arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 17 | On a day like this you could almost make yourself imagine that the old times were back , when the resort was crammed with holiday-makers for the whole of the summer season and every seaside guest house had a ‘ No Vacancies ’ sign hanging in the window . |
| 18 | It remained a workhouse until 1916 , when it was used as billets for the army . |
| 19 | The power of traditional chiefs and the urban elite was replaced by Committees for the Defence of the Revolution in every village and workplace . |
| 20 | The £550m mentioned above was charged against profits for the year following an actuarial valuation of the company 's main pension fund as it stood on January 1 1993 . |
| 21 | After the Castlemorton event the MP for the area was besieged with demands for the law to be tightened up . |
| 22 | Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference . |
| 23 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 24 | Jarman House was humming with preparations for the Frolic . |
| 25 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 26 | Zoff detailed the drama behind the scenes as Gazza was kept on tenterhooks for the past four days , wondering whether he would make his Italian debut . |
| 27 | Resident partner at the salon Ian Watts said the decision to go smoke-free was prompted by concerns for the health of his staff and clients . |
| 28 | This was suggested for guides for the recognition of ships from the air ( G. Bijur , 1943 ) . |
| 29 | In April 1985 , a Rolex-Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge was held at Gleneagles for the first time . |
| 30 | Regarding the Bethlehem Hospital , in 1810 a competition was held for designs for a new hospital in St George 's Fields , Southwark ; but in the event none of the entries which gained the premiums was actually adopted , and instead Lewis was instructed to incorporate their best features in a new design of his own . |