Example sentences of "was [verb] for the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 2 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 3 | Prepared jointly by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Works , with advice from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning on matters of site planning and layout , it was intended for the guidance of local authorities — who , it was presumed would be undertaking most of the post-war redevelopment . |
| 4 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 5 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 6 | His wife Rita was treated for the effects of smoke . |
| 7 | No reason was given for the departure of Rourke at the time , and this only served to intensify speculation . |
| 8 | Here permission was given for the construction of a large courtyard development of twenty-six houses and flats , quite out of character with the compact eighteenth-century house , in the belief that the profits yielded from the sale of the flats would go back into the house . |
| 9 | The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel . |
| 10 | Although leave was given for the service of the writ , Scott J. was unwilling to allow the Anton Piller order to be served ( and immediately executed ) at the same time . |
| 11 | So , in addition to regulations for worship ( festivals , sacrifices , etc. ) , detailed guidance was given for the preservation of ritual purity . |
| 12 | No official reason was given for the postponement of voting . |
| 13 | The proposed temporary arrangements were explained and authority was given for the advance of £200 or £300 in temporary loans to some of the workmen to enable them to replace tools destroyed . |
| 14 | But Pearl 's study was criticized for the non-randomness of his sample . |
| 15 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 16 | They did n't want to wait , either of them , and the wedding was arranged for the middle of October . |
| 17 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
| 18 | In Attorney-General 's Reference ( No. 2 of 1982 ) , where the trial judge had directed an acquittal , the following question , at p. 625 , was referred for the opinion of the Court of Appeal : |
| 19 | As a measure of the regard in which the family was held by the king , Archbishop Neile was able to secure a royal pardon for his son when Sir Paul was indicted for the manslaughter of a carman and other felonies in January 1636 . |
| 20 | His theory was developed for the purpose of giving an account of the way words have meanings , but it can easily be adapted to the task of representing the meanings of actions . |
| 21 | To exclude such possible error a method was developed for the extraction of pure enzyme protein from aspirated duodenal juice , based on affinity chromatography for both amylase and trypsin . |
| 22 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 23 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 24 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 25 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In February 1976 the company was fined for the pollution of a stream near Silvermines in 1974 and 1975 . |
| 28 | In May , 1991 , recession was blamed for the loss of another 12 jobs . |
| 29 | In 1860 £2–10–0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books ; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles . |
| 30 | All these were themes of some contemporary importance , and , as we see from the Treasurer 's reports , money was voted for the expenses of the various eminent people drawing them up . |