Example sentences of "these [noun pl] were [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |
| 2 | In the recent past , many thousands of these animals were exported for the pet trade . |
| 3 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 4 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
| 5 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 6 | These raids were planned for the night of 14 December . |