Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enclosed glazed cabin was provided for the pilot and co-pilot , and a specious interior allowed for a navigation compartment complete with chart table , a wireless cabin , canteen , galley and sleeping berths . |
| 2 | I remember with horror a meeting in our village hall at which boy-scoutish enthusiasm was shown for the knot-tying , camp-fire , make-do-and-mend fun to be had out of getting things going again after the bomb . |
| 3 | A band outside began to play the " Marseillaise " and iced champagne was served for the guests to toast the emperor and the New Year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants . |
| 6 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 7 | Work started in February 1975 ; two MKIII , ex-Inter-City coaches were modified for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 8 | As England manager Geoff Cooke was naming his 30-strong squad for the five-day excursion to fitness-testing agony , the oblivious Ojomoh was packing for a Christmas holiday with his family in Nigeria . |
| 9 | More detailed discussions were planned for the visit to Russia of US Secretary of State James Baker two weeks later . |
| 10 | Careful plans were laid for an effective national strike-breaking organization . |
| 11 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Old Testament was written for the people of Israel — the people who looked back to Jacob ( = Israel ) as their common ancestor and to Abraham as the founder of their nation . |
| 14 | So , in addition to regulations for worship ( festivals , sacrifices , etc. ) , detailed guidance was given for the preservation of ritual purity . |
| 15 | During this stage quadratic harmonic potentials were included for the covalent geometry , a square-well quadratic term was used for the distances and dihedral restraints , and a quartic potential was used for the van der Waals term ( F- repel ) . |
| 16 | In Chapter 4 a no-arbitrage equation was derived for the relationship between the spot and futures prices of a market index . |
| 17 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 18 | BRITAIN 'S new top judge was set for a clash with the Government last night after he called for SHORTER jail sentences . |
| 19 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 20 | The local ethical committee 's approval and patients ' informed consent were obtained for the study . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The chance of stardom beckoned after Maureen read that the Civic Theatre was looking for a corgi to appear alongside the Queen in the Roald Dahl play . |
| 24 | As Manchukuo 's raw materials were exploited for the benefit of Japan 's industrial economy , the area became a centre for heavy industrial development . |
| 25 | Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war . |
| 26 | A little light relief was planned for the Saturday evening with an unofficial K4 500m race for trainers . |
| 27 | The strict rules of disposing of redundant vehicles by public tender was forgotten for the rest of the stock , dismantled very much behind closed doors at Derby Works . |
| 28 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 29 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 30 | A record price for seventeenth-century emerald jewellery was achieved for the magnificent Spanish Colonial emerald and gold cross ( lot 153 ) , salvaged from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas , which sold on the telephone for £210,000 ( est. £150,000–200,000 ) while the next lot , another emerald and gold brooch , made £55,000 ( est. £40,000–60,000 ) . |