Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 2 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 3 | The sanction of cold-shouldering was imposed for the first time in relation to Dundee Football Club ( see Panel Statement 1992/9 ) after hearings before the full Panel and the Appeal Committee . |
| 4 | Large amounts of money were collected for the Campaign , while the Communist Party was able to supply many full-time workers for the Committee 's various activities . |
| 5 | A free system of administration was substituted for an official system . |
| 6 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 7 | A problem of continuity of workload was posed for the lawyers ( Carlin 1962 ; Galanter 1974 ) . |
| 8 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 9 | This type of machine was used for the digital sound recordings made by the Nippon Columbia company in 1972 , instead of for video . |
| 10 | They were not , and this line of investigation was abandoned for the current phase of the project . |
| 11 | Tithes of reed were reserved for the local priest on the Somerset Levels , and Chaucer 's monk cast an entirely practical eye on the local birdlife : ‘ he liked a swan best , and roasted whole . ’ |
| 12 | In the experiments performed on days 6–9 after injecting the larvae , the part of the jejunum with the most severe signs of inflammation was selected for the experiment . |
| 13 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 14 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner . |
| 16 | By convention , the post of Speaker was reserved for a Shia Moslem . |
| 17 | A shortfall of over 300,000 tonnes of rice was projected for the 1990/91 harvest , a result in part of drought and flooding , but also because of the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity . |
| 18 | Some without experience of validation were praised for the high standard and clarify of their documentation . |
| 19 | In four patients a history of haematuria was elicited for the first time and was investigated . |
| 20 | A second round of voting was required for the Montenegro presidency , as a run-off between the incumbent , Momir Bulatovic ( 42.2 per cent on first round ) , and former federal Vice-President Branko Kostic ( 23 per cent ) . |
| 21 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 22 | On Dec. 29 , the Federal Assembly approved the 1992 budget , in which 76.6 per cent of expenditure was destined for the JNA . |
| 23 | In Jerusalem , though , there was a tradition that all places of entertainment were closed for the Sabbath . |
| 24 | At the same time rules of conduct were established for the behaviour of member nations . |
| 25 | At the same time warrants of arrest were issued for a number of former ministers and other Ershad associates . |
| 26 | The Gowers had backed Warwick in 1470/1 and were still in opposition in June 1471 , when a commission of arrest was issued for the head of the family , Thomas , and his uncles Robert and George . |
| 27 | The Gowers had backed Warwick in 1470/1 and were still in opposition in June 1471 , when a commission of arrest was issued for the head of the family , Thomas , and his uncles Robert and George . |
| 28 | However , most of the production capacity was still in place during the 1990/91 period covered by the survey and in any case the majority of production was destined for the home market . |
| 29 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 30 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |