Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 3 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 4 | The meeting was reported to have seen differences between Syria , Iraq , Sudan and Libya on the one hand , which were pushing for a more intransigent Arab League position , and the Gulf states on the other , which spoke out for " international legitimacy " ( according to Radio Monte Carlo on April 30 ) . |
| 5 | Muriel , probably because of her years and the fact they were looking for a more mature person , was by a hair 's breadth the front-runner , ahead of two younger girls both with experience of the insurance business . |
| 6 | They were a step in a different direction from the exotic and theatrical Victorian house , and they were built for a more architecturally educated and independent type of client . |
| 7 | Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument . |
| 8 | For the oligonucleotide binding-site probes 5% gels ( 29:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used while 4% gels ( 39:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used for the circularly permutated 143 bp restriction fragments . |
| 9 | Given the triumph of fundamentalist Islam in Iran and the strength of similar forces in Afghanistan , many who saw no justification for Soviet intervention in law in 1979 could see one on grounds of ‘ national security ’ : much as such justifications were offered for the flagrantly illegal annexations of western Poland , the Baltic republics , Bessarabia , northern Bukovina and parts of Finnish territory in 1939–40 . |
| 10 | Actually , shellac was perhaps the least important constituent ; the most important was slate dust , whose abrasive and gritty properties were needed for a rather unusual reason . |
| 11 | But we were hoping for a much rarer black bird … |
| 12 | Separate designs were evolved for the very different conditions of forest and savannah . |
| 13 | That was calculated for an infinitely long line charge too . |
| 14 | The constable was treated for a badly bruised nose at Broomfield Hospital , Chelmsford . |
| 15 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |
| 16 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 17 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 18 | Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with . |
| 19 | Okay , so I was looking for a politically active , fat , drunk kleptomaniac . |
| 20 | The mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic we find in two books of the Bible implies that , at least among the Jews , Aramaic was written for no more international a public than that capable of reading Hebrew . |
| 21 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 22 | The predominance of Latin in this sample reflects the fact that many letters were addressed to bishops , and that Latin was used for the more solemn and formal instruments emanating from her chancery . |
| 23 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 24 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 25 | Detailed analysis of the early period of social-democratic activity , during the late 1880s and early 90s , has found that ‘ the relationship between worker and intelligentsia leaders was characterized for the most part by trust , co-operation and mutual respect . ’ |
| 26 | It looked as if the stage was set for a carefully planned and timed entry of the leader , on the totalitarian model , but when the time came Aung San passed almost unobserved through the people to the platform , and quietly began his speech . |
| 27 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 28 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 29 | A very new officer ( judged by the colour of his drill shorts , which had a yellow rookie look about them as if they had come straight out of Millett 's window ) appeared in his drill which was never meant for him ; it was meant for a much larger person . |
| 30 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |