Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [num] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Similar arrangements were made in 1639 for the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These bunkers were constructed in 1966 for the express purpose of preventing Nicklaus from taking this route . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was formed in 1939 for the same purpose as the NL , to amalgamate and strengthen various extreme right-wing and pro-fascist movements . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The property was completed in 1990 for the Pyman family of shipbuilders . |
| 12 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was looking to 1993 for a further drive into fresh markets . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some date back to the 13th century , and The Sign of the Angel hotel was built in 1480 for a wool merchant . |
| 17 | The Oxford Messiah is a special version of Handel 's original work and was written in 1749 for a one-off performance at the the Sheldonian . |
| 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 | The building was started in 1865 for a family from the northwest . |
| 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 | Markets had been held there from time immemorial , almost certainly from long before a royal grant was obtained in 1245 for an annual four-day fair . |
| 26 | Kenneth Anderson , 53 , of Northumbria Walk , West Denton , Newcastle , who was jailed in 1989 for an armed robbery at a council housing office in Newcastle 's Denton Park , mistaking it for the adjoining post office , had his 12-year-prison sentence upheld by the Criminal Appeal Court in London yesterday . |
| 27 | Baroness Susan De Stempel was jailed in 1990 for a crime described as cruel and ruthless . |
| 28 | Protesters at Snailsden moor were led by Benny Rothman , who was jailed in 1932 for a similar protest trespass on Kinder Scout , in Derbyshire . |
| 29 | This was repeated in 1977 for the Office of Fair Trading ( Consumer Credit Survey 1977 . |
| 30 | The second survey was conducted in 1976 for the Committee of Inquiry into the System of Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities ( Robinson Committee ) . |