Example sentences of "[was/were] make for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Since laws were made for every degree ’ ,
2 He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’
3 Thereafter , although the Florentines continued to import English wool , they did not carry it in their own ships , and in the 1480s proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa , with English ships having the monopoly of the carrying .
4 Meanwhile plans were made for a visit to Italy .
5 Within the total spatial concept , proposals were made for the decentralization of industry and the eradication of ribbon development on main roads .
6 Our Priest agreed , and the necessary arrangements were made for the boy 's adoption and transfer to Eire .
7 This sounded an excellent strategy , and all plans were made for the morrow .
8 The Statute of the Council of Europe was signed as the Treaty of Westminster , one month after the establishment of NATO , on 5 May 1949 by representatives of 10 states , and arrangements were made for the organisation to establish permanent offices in Strasbourg .
9 I told them you were made for the part . ’
10 This was one reason why the predictions of ruin which were made for the peasantry failed at this stage even to look like coming true in some of the most industrialised and developed countries .
11 Decalogue V and VI , A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love were made for the cinema .
12 In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 .
13 According to an anecdote told in Herbert 's autobiography , copies of the portrait were made for the queen , for Richard Sackville , the third Earl of Dorset , and , in miniature by Isaac Oliver , for Lady Aeres ( a copy at University College , Oxford , may be one of these ) .
14 Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands .
15 The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun .
16 After the State funeral , plans were made for the Coronation , which for the very first time was to be televised .
17 If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way .
18 The provincial grounds all hold between 40–50,000. a lot of improvements to the country 's infrastructure — transport , TV , telecommunications — were made for the Soccer World Cup in 1978 .
19 Arrangements were made for the deceased to take up residence in a residential home for the elderly known as Samuel Saye House , owned and managed by a Mr. and Mrs. Tinker .
20 ‘ Demands were made for the repayment of the moneys advanced to companies in the group , and when the demands were not met , the second and third defendants were appointed joint receivers of the assets of the first five plaintiffs , and of the assets specifically charged by the sixth and seventh plaintiffs .
21 While careful arrangements were made for the placement of every long-stay patient from Exminster , there was no direct reprovision of wards in the hospital as wards in the community .
22 The so-called ‘ Palace Style ’ amphoras were at first made and used only at Knossos itself , which strongly suggests that they were made for the use of the ruling elite .
23 What preparations were made for the lesson .
24 Apart from routine business , the final arrangements were made for the IGM ( Interim General Meeting ) .
25 This is in accord with the assumptions that were made for the attention focusing explanation given for the different relationship between risk and P(A) in the two cases .
26 Circulars were issued to local authorities ; arrangements were made for the billeting of evacuees ( involving detailed surveys of available accommodation ) ; those citizens most at risk ( principally children , mothers with pre-school children , the elderly , the blind , the disabled ) were identified as belonging to the ‘ priority classes ’ ; and , most important of all , the country was divided into evacuation areas ( containing 11 million people , from which 3 million in the priority classes would be removed ) , reception areas ( 16 million ) which would host the evacuees , and neutral areas ( 13 million ) .
27 He made his call at a meeting of high-level civil servants , police and military officers on Nov. 2 , three days before a House of Representatives debate on prostitution at which demands were made for the closure of all brothels nationwide .
28 This was to be a temporary measure while further preparations were made for the erection of an Anderson Clyde ‘ Giant Colossus ’ gantry type crane which would work to both ship and vehicle .
29 When it is applied to video materials for language teaching , it mostly seems to mean that the materials were made for an audience of native speakers .
30 Calls were made for an end to commercial strikes and to the involvement of children in the process .
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