Example sentences of "these [noun pl] were [verb] for [art] " 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 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 6 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 9 | These raids were planned for the night of 14 December . |