Example sentences of "were built for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 2 | In 1838 six locomotives were built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . |
| 3 | In 1839 Kitson and Laird withdrew from this partnership and established the Airedale foundry , also in Leeds , whose first locomotives were built for the North Midland Railway in 1840 . |
| 4 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 5 | Special wall units with large panels were built for the occasion . |
| 6 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 7 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 8 | Chariots were built for the races , painted lovely in red and azure |