Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club , in Normanby Road , and its stand have been the scene of a series of unexplained fires , the latest being last Friday when the stand was gutted for the second time . |
| 2 | The remainder was intended for Bibles , Prayer Books and ‘ … other books of piety ’ , as well as putting one of the most hopeful of poor persons from each school to some trade , calling or honest employment . |
| 3 | Samples ( 1 ml ) were taken for measurement of salivary pH and pCO 2 and the remainder was retinaed for further analysis . |
| 4 | The remainder was paid for partly by the county education authority , partly by my mother 's long stints at the sewing machine . |
| 5 | He remembered , just in time , not to shave — the beard was needed for the Edwardian Ball . |
| 6 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 7 | The oldest continuous herd , the Creetown , was founded in 1919 , but the variety was known for at least a century before that , when the feral Ardrossan herd of White Park cattle became extinct in 1820 . |
| 8 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 9 | Bedrooms were not heated , and there was no hot water for a quick wash : the geyser was lit for baths only . |
| 10 | No FAA aircraft were lost , output of the refinery was halved for three months , while much of the oil stored in tanks was destroyed . |
| 11 | The award was made for their development of a low cost process for producing Solar Grade Silicon , SoG-Si , and a new technique for growing polycrystalline ingots which can then be used to obtain square wafers for the manufacture of solar cells . |
| 12 | The award was made for the development of the Vortoil hydrocyclone unit for separating oil droplets from water . |
| 13 | The Award was made for a breakthrough which is already improving the diagnosis and monitoring of treatment of major diseases including cancer , AIDS , hepatitis , rubella , and fertility disorders . |
| 14 | The award was given for the Pensions Special report , produced for members of the pension scheme in May 1992 by the pensions department . |
| 15 | Here was the escape clause the board was looking for . |
| 16 | According to the Act , three conditions had to be met if the Board was to pay for the repair and stabilization of the building . |
| 17 | At first , the technique was used for relatively simple objects , such as pendants and heads , but later it was applied to vases , statuettes and plaques . |
| 18 | The measure was sent for Bush 's signature after the Senate followed suit by 79 votes to 15 on Nov. 22 . |
| 19 | The measure was designed for immediate application and short-term effect , with the handout being retrieved in the following year . |
| 20 | But the afternoon was done for . |
| 21 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |
| 22 | The money was raised for the purchase of a syringe driver , and in her letter of thanks , the Hospice Matron said : ‘ These pumps are extremely useful , and give many people the kind of pain relief that is sometimes difficult to achieve by other means . |
| 23 | A BANK robber who claimed his £2,600 haul had been stolen from woods where he had hidden the money was jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 24 | Either the money was earmarked for some special project like the building of the temple to Athena Nike , goddess of victory , a way of saying ‘ we have won the war against Persia ’ or else Athena was refused her one-sixtieth part , for symbolic reasons , the other fifty-nine sixtieths being paid in the usual way . |
| 25 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 26 | The money was paid for articles concerning her life with her husband Peter , the Yorkshire Ripper , he said . |
| 27 | The money was required for a specially adapted vehicle so that , data processing manager at Courtaulds Aerospace in Shildon , UK , could continue working . |
| 28 | The federal Prime Minister , Ante Markovic , also a Croat , resigned on Dec. 20 , in protest at what he called a " war budget " for 1992 , in which he said that 81 per cent of the money was marked for the JNA [ see also below ] . |
| 29 | ‘ The money was brought for another purpose . ’ |
| 30 | The money was used for the purchase by the secretary of state of buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest , together with their contents . |