Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The branches with their silver-green leaves spread out to meet one another , intertwined , and cast rows of delicate tendrils around the pillars which were the support for the gallery above . |
| 2 | The balmy evenings were the compensation for the unpleasantness of the day . |
| 3 | Until recently they were the location for the television series Hi Di Hi . |
| 4 | Main picture : Gaughin 's Tahiti paintings were the inspiration for the kitchen colour scheme |
| 5 | However , were the graph for the inert gases in carbonaceous chondrites to be plotted in Figure 5.2 it would have the same shape as that of the planets . |
| 6 | His crimes were the basis for The Silence Of The Lambs , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho . |
| 7 | The Majority favoured unemployment insurance , the Minority non-contributory benefits which would enable suitably respectable beneficiaries to be selected ; training colonies were the alternative for the undeserving . |
| 8 | THE BEAUTIFUL grounds of Dalmeny House near South Queensferry were the setting for the annual BP barbecue . |
| 9 | Well it 's certainly true that there were ideological differences but whether those were the reason for the split or not is a er is a , is a moot question and I suspect not . |
| 10 | " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here . |
| 11 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
| 12 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 13 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 14 | The results were a victory for the coalition , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which defeated the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) by a margin of just over 1 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | The Scottish Office last week argued its promises stood , and that redundancies were a matter for the university . |
| 16 | The cribs were not the usual constructions of shoe boxes and straw , with small religious figures and matching sets of the Magi ; they were a challenge for the ingenuity and imagination of each section and would often involve large amounts of gravel , stones , concrete and other building materials . |
| 17 | John Major , whose declared policy is to keep inflation between one and four per cent next year , said the figures were a boost for the economy . |
| 18 | He smiled at her tolerantly , as though there were no accounting for the ideas girls got in their heads . |
| 19 | Though they fought bravely , they were no match for the trained mercenaries . |
| 20 | He was made aware that nuclear weapons were no substitute for the presence of frigates on station and infantry battalions on the ground in maintaining stability in Afro-Asia . |
| 21 | In the early months of the war Londons carried on with routine patrol duties and , despite their ageing characteristics , were no walk-over for the enemy aircraft in a fight . |
| 22 | The forecast for each subsequent relevant RPI is found using where j is the number of semi-annual forecasts after RPI 1 ( which was the forecast for the RPI in January ) . |
| 23 | The health connection was the motivation for the research that led to keen medical interest and the endorsement of the benefits of dietary fibre . |
| 24 | At one point of the fair it was the tradition for the landlord to go upstairs with a frying pan full of Hot Ha'pennies . |
| 25 | Where was the concern for the thousands not coming anywhere near the church and not caring about its ethos either , but who were bound to an eternity without God ? |
| 26 | And at last , Rosalba sighed , smilingly , as she dipped and looped and drew out the thread herself , there was the dress for the sorceress . |
| 27 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 28 | The prohibitions in question were those against parricide and incest ; but of these that against incest had priority because it was the occasion for the temptation to commit the latter . |
| 29 | There was also an American girl who was the interpreter for the two policemen . |
| 30 | And thirdly the objective was no longer what Marx had acclaimed the objective of er a party following his leadership should be , no longer the objective which Lenin , in the Russian Revolution , claimed was the objective for the Russian Bolshevik Party not a workers ' revolution which would then spread and become international , worldwide . |