Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 2 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 3 | Work started in February 1975 ; two MKIII , ex-Inter-City coaches were modified for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 4 | More detailed discussions were planned for the visit to Russia of US Secretary of State James Baker two weeks later . |
| 5 | Careful plans were laid for an effective national strike-breaking organization . |
| 6 | In Poplar , as elsewhere in the winter of 1902–03 , and in the still more severe distress of 1903–04 , public funds were opened for the ‘ relief of distress ’ , often sponsored by newspapers . |
| 7 | While careful arrangements were made for the placement of every long-stay patient from Exminster , there was no direct reprovision of wards in the hospital as wards in the community . |
| 8 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 9 | As Manchukuo 's raw materials were exploited for the benefit of Japan 's industrial economy , the area became a centre for heavy industrial development . |
| 10 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 11 | Six towns of different sizes were selected for the research , representing different regions , different traffic situations and thus together representing the diversity of problems that one would expect to find across the country . |
| 12 | The biggish ones were kept for the doctors at Dunstan Hill Hospital , just outside Newcastle , where they monitored his progress and adjusted his drugs . |
| 13 | In tax matters the Empire was indeed surprisingly decentralised , with taxes levied exclusively by the states until 1914 when imperial taxes were imposed for the first time . |
| 14 | When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry . |
| 15 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 16 | Extra funds were earmarked for the reorganization of public administration in the police , the army , the judiciary and the civil and diplomatic services . |
| 17 | Separate designs were evolved for the very different conditions of forest and savannah . |
| 18 | The following goals were established for the ten month secondment period : |
| 19 | Separate Bills were introduced for the poll tax . |
| 20 | When serial washings were analysed for the presence of Ac-ASA , there was an exponential fall in concentration , compatible with removal of drug from the cell surface ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 21 | Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline . |
| 22 | The opening piece , Respighi 's symphonic poem Fountains of Rome , was subtly characterised and sensuously played , but the real fireworks were reserved for the second half of the concert . |
| 23 | Actually , shellac was perhaps the least important constituent ; the most important was slate dust , whose abrasive and gritty properties were needed for a rather unusual reason . |
| 24 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 25 | The 10p-containing hybrids were tested for the presence of ZNF33 sequences by PCR using primers 4113 and 4114 , which allow amplification from both ZNF33 loci , as demonstrated by the results of Figure 2 . |
| 26 | In this paper separate equations were constructed for the university and public sectors with the effect of the value of student support being higher in the public sector . |
| 27 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 28 | Broadly similar results were obtained for the cell kinetic data derived by counting pcna immunoreactive cells . |
| 29 | The fourteen streamlined double-deckers were bought for the Squires Gate route in 1935 , on which they spent most of their working lives until its closure in 1961 . |
| 30 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |