Example sentences of "it was [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | Because it was constructed for a specific purpose , this text is fairly unusual in that there are few lexical clues to what the text might be ‘ about ’ . |
| 3 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 4 | ‘ In order to obtain judicially admissible evidence , US investigators would have to obtain proof that ( i ) a payment was intended for a foreign official , ( ii ) it was made with a corrupt intent , and ( iii ) it was made for a prohibited purpose . |
| 5 | It was looking for a new programme and trying to consolidate its confused followers . |
| 6 | Now , it was invoked for a religious purpose . |
| 7 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 8 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 9 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 10 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 11 | A ‘ High Victorian ’ building , it was built for an Irish metal merchant and has most of its interior courtyard and galleries intact . |
| 12 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 13 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 14 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 15 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 16 | We had a motion which was put before Conference last year and it was carried and it was asking for a similar review to what 's being asked for this morning . |
| 17 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 18 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |