Example sentences of "of [noun] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 2 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 3 | A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ . |
| 4 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 5 | The sanction of cold-shouldering was imposed for the first time in relation to Dundee Football Club ( see Panel Statement 1992/9 ) after hearings before the full Panel and the Appeal Committee . |
| 6 | Large amounts of money were collected for the Campaign , while the Communist Party was able to supply many full-time workers for the Committee 's various activities . |
| 7 | A total of £175,000 was paid for the freedom of estate agent Stephanie , 25 , who was seized in January as she showed a client a house in Birmingham . |
| 8 | In the C2 event which followed , Andriev/Haralambie of Romania were disqualified for the same reason , the win going to Papke/Spelly of Germany . |
| 9 | A free system of administration was substituted for an official system . |
| 10 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 11 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 12 | A problem of continuity of workload was posed for the lawyers ( Carlin 1962 ; Galanter 1974 ) . |
| 13 | The area of Worcester was chosen for the development of a demonstration community service to replace the local mental hospital , Powick . |
| 14 | Six groups of general practitioners in the north east of Scotland were identified for the exercise in the first three months of 1990 — five in Grampian and one in Tayside . |
| 15 | Top price of £990 was paid for a Whitehead cow and heifer calf from J J Murphy , Caledon . |
| 16 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 17 | This type of machine was used for the digital sound recordings made by the Nippon Columbia company in 1972 , instead of for video . |
| 18 | A variety of models were suggested for the forms which these political institutions might take . |
| 19 | In 1851 Hoopers of Eastington were noted for the fine display of their products at the great Exhibition . |
| 20 | They were not , and this line of investigation was abandoned for the current phase of the project . |
| 21 | Two days of celebrations were planned for the visitors — some from as far away as Canada and Australia — including a funfair , helicopter rides , fireworks and dancing and numerous side stalls . |
| 22 | Tithes of reed were reserved for the local priest on the Somerset Levels , and Chaucer 's monk cast an entirely practical eye on the local birdlife : ‘ he liked a swan best , and roasted whole . ’ |
| 23 | Farmers Third World Network — a grant of £6,510 was approved for the continuing development of a network of interested farmers examining the issues and effects of European policy on Third World agriculture . |
| 24 | In the experiments performed on days 6–9 after injecting the larvae , the part of the jejunum with the most severe signs of inflammation was selected for the experiment . |
| 25 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 26 | The Manor of Halling was run for the Bishop by a bailiff , for we find in 1268 he was cross examined in an inquisition at the Manor of Halling . |
| 27 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner . |
| 29 | What was crucial , though , was that this development did not mean that a special category of movies was made for a sectional audience but rather that what was thought of as the ‘ quality ’ taste was allowed to shape the general output of movies . |
| 30 | As chancellor of the University of Glasgow , the Duke of Montrose was solicited for the scholarships in the University 's gift tenable at the University of Oxford , known as Snell 's exhibitions , while Sir James Grant of Grant was constantly being asked for bursaries for students at the University of St. Andrews . |