Example sentences of "was [vb pp] for [art] [noun pl] 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 | His wife Rita was treated for the effects of smoke . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A $9 million charge was included for the costs of the October 17 earthquake . |
| 7 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 8 | The same method was applied for the ends of the coach and the partitions . |
| 9 | But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 . |
| 10 | A lively indication of the ways in which ivory could minister to the complex life-style of a young Egyptian ruler is provided by finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun who reigned during the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Apart from furnishing armlets and bracelets ivory was used for the handles of the king 's walking-stick , ostrich feather fan and whip . |
| 11 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 12 | Once oxygen and nitrogen appeared , the groundwork was laid for the beginnings of vegetation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Menachem Begin the leader of Irgun , who was wanted for the murders of sergeants Martin and Paice ( see Daily Express ) went on in time to become the Prime Minister of the Zionist State of Israel . |
| 15 | It was important in these subject areas that a coherent , national framework was maintained for the purposes of progression , recognition , credit transfer and articulation . |