Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 2 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 3 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 4 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 5 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 6 | The proposal , which was for a referendum on the dissolution of the Byelarus Supreme Soviet , was denounced in a statement by the Council of Ministers on March 4 as an attempt to increase " social tension and confrontation " by blaming the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers for the recent drop in living standards . |
| 7 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 8 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 9 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 10 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |
| 11 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 12 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | Then Toby trudged towards the boarders ’ annexe which was for the moment his home . |
| 14 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 15 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 16 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 17 | One morning , early in May , I was wakened by what was for a town-bred boy a startling commotion . |
| 18 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 19 | At the same time Gascoyne took the opportunity of surveying the whole of Cornwall ; as a result of this new field-work a map , dedicated to Charles Bodville Robartes , second Earl of Radnor and lord lieutenant of Cornwall , was published on 27 March 1699 ; it is on what was for the period the large scale of almost one inch to the mile . |
| 20 | But er it was quite a simple job and er I liked it , then now and again I used to walk down to the station master 's or the station inspector 's office you know , have a chat with him and and get the gen on what was for the weekend working you see . |