Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs claim damages from a number of defendants , including the third defendant , under the following heads : ( 1 ) general damages for conspiracy ; ( 2 ) exemplary damages on the basis that the acts complained of were calculated to make a profit for the conspirators or their companies and constituted a cynical disregard for the plaintiffs ' rights ; and ( 3 ) damages for deceit as an alternative to damages for conspiracy . |
| 2 | The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities . |
| 3 | Hundreds of people were expected to attend the service for Mr Peacock , who died in his teenage daughter 's arms minutes after UVF gunmen shot him in the back at his north Belfast house . |
| 4 | Increasingly threatening forms of local political activity brought a response from central government , whose policies were designed to reduce the scope for local government autonomy . |
| 5 | The talks addressed trade , transit and security matters and were designed to pave the way for a forthcoming visit by Indian Foreign Minister I. K. Gujral . |
| 6 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you were made to pay the penalty for your rashness ! ’ |
| 8 | There has also been malpractice in the past by officials administering the fund , he claims , in which thousands of pounds were used to foot the bill for regimental social functions . |
| 9 | The Newcastle prescribing index and the current prescribing unit were used to adjust the data for all 46 practices in Newcastle and the 34 in Gateshead to the respective family health services authority average . |
| 10 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 11 | Management consultants , P A , were commissioned to review the options for Warren Spring 's future and it was evident from the technical synergies and the fact that we had appropriate accommodation at Culham/Harwell — coupled with our ‘ enthusiastic response ’ — that the merger with AEA was the best way forward for all concerned . |
| 12 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 13 | How many plants were needed to furnish the buds for the exhibition vase ? |
| 14 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 15 | The arrangement whereby builders in competition with each other were invited to quote a price for which they would carry out all the work indicated on drawings and a specification , and to sign a contract to that effect , was introduced as a standard procedure by Hunt into the Office of Works as a means of controlling expenditure . |
| 16 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 17 | In a previous issue of JFIT News we announced that we were beginning to draft a proposal for a new Compound Semiconductor Advanced Technology Programme , and we asked for your views and ideas as to the scope of the workplan and the size of the budget . |
| 18 | The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . |
| 19 | Just as education , literacy and communications were beginning to prepare the workers for new radical organizations their attention and savings were captured by opportunistic entrepreneurs with a very different set of values . |
| 20 | Fortunately for the British government even Eisenhower and Dulles were beginning to accept the need for a summit , not least because they were anxious not to lose the propaganda initiative to the USSR . |
| 21 | The next morning at 7.30 the cast and crew were called to board the Bounty for filming at sea . |
| 22 | If a world chess congress were convened to reconsider the rules for future tournaments , arguments would be made in that congress that would clearly be out of order within a game of chess . |
| 23 | IX and X. Similar types of kiln-burnt bricks were utilised to make the piers for the Roman system of hypocaust under-floor heating ( page 63 and XI ) . |
| 24 | Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed . |
| 25 | The Central Policy Review Staff were asked to examine the case for electrification . |
| 26 | Subjects were asked to rate the passage for comprehensibility and to recall as much of it as they could . |
| 27 | These were asked to complete a questionnaire for the assessment of personality together with an inventory of sexual practices and attitudes . |
| 28 | They were asked to complete the diary for three to four weeks . |
| 29 | If you were asked to select the towns for two new large department stores , which two would you choose and why ? |
| 30 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |