Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report suggests that Europe 's universities , which were the venues for the bulk of research biochemical use in 1990 , will find that this will decline due to limited funding and greater emphasis on teaching . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their class were the guardians for the mysterious quality of Britishness ; it was their duty to be fair , honest , and clean in a partial , deceptive and dirty world . |
| 4 | Geelong , who finished ninth last year , were the underdogs for the match but came within one straight kick of achieving the impossible dream , in coach Malcolm Blight 's first year . |
| 5 | The balmy evenings were the compensation for the unpleasantness of the day . |
| 6 | These were the signs for the future , but at the moment only signs . |
| 7 | In the light of the experience of thirty years earlier , what were the chances for the temporary agreement ? |
| 8 | Until recently they were the location for the television series Hi Di Hi . |
| 9 | ‘ Throughout the 1980s the inner cities were the battlegrounds for the Tories ’ discredited ideologies . |
| 10 | ‘ Throughout the 1980s the inner cities were the battlegrounds for the Tories ’ discredited ideologies . |
| 11 | Main picture : Gaughin 's Tahiti paintings were the inspiration for the kitchen colour scheme |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also on the agenda at this time were the elections for the local People 's Assembly and the imminent anniversary of the 1935 anti-Japanese student movement . |
| 14 | His crimes were the basis for The Silence Of The Lambs , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | THE BEAUTIFUL grounds of Dalmeny House near South Queensferry were the setting for the annual BP barbecue . |
| 17 | How was this achieved and what were the implications for the way men were using the landscape ? |
| 18 | Bear , Stearns & Co Inc and Oppenheimer & Co Inc were the co-managers for the offering . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | " 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Scottish Office last week argued its promises stood , and that redundancies were a matter for the university . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By the time his original classification as a ‘ contested registration ’ was rescinded there were no vacancies for the hard-hitter from Keighley , and he was compelled to settle for league cricket and Minor Counties appearances for Cumberland . |
| 29 | Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Three countries ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) met at Zruby in Slovakia on Sept. 25 , when Imrich Andrejcak of Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying that there were no plans for the three countries to sign a military pact or form a military union . |
| 30 | There were no arrangements for the Press to accompany him on his tour , journalists were told . |