Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] which [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1978 the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) had opted for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA , and in 1982 the FSM and the Marshall Islands had signed compacts of free association which provided for internal sovereignty and US economic support in return for continuing US control of their defence and foreign policies . |
| 2 | When the house of Árpad became extinct in 1301 , the crown itself became the object of civil war which continued for a decade until Charles Robert of Anjou finally secured both throne and crown . |
| 3 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 4 | The sale opened will with a miniature armour of good quality which sold for £2,000 , four times the top estimate . |
| 5 | There was indeed a reign of euphemism and of ostensible delicacy which prevented for instance the novel from being too explicit , bowdlerised Shakespeare 's plays , alluded to prostitution as the ‘ social evil ’ and gonorrhoea and syphilis as the ‘ social diseases ’ . |
| 6 | There was unprecedented Soviet media coverage : Moscow Radio had announced the march in advance and had urged " all democratically minded Muscovites to take part " , while Soviet television news showed close-up shots , not just of banners with slogans attacking the communist monopoly and party conservatives , but even of isolated placards which called for Gorbachev 's resignation . |
| 7 | Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move . |
| 8 | Outstanding among these were Ana Maria Pacheco 's ‘ Head ’ ( lot 171 ) , a totemic carved and painted wooden head with real teeth which sold for £4,500 ( $6,750 ; est. £2,000–3,000 ) . |
| 9 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |
| 10 | This sense of Christian unity in the faith enacted in liturgical structures which catered for the needs of lay individuals seeking to understand their faith was lost after the Reformation , when increasing stress was put on individual communion and a personal relationship with God . |
| 11 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 12 | This and other statements were clear enough , and it seems a little one-sided to attribute causal power to one set of statements — those which encouraged Protestants to reject the O'Neill government — and yet deny causal power to those statements which called for such rejection to be confined within the limits of legality . |
| 13 | Demonstrations began on 11 February in Stepanakert , the regional capital , and led to the adoption of a resolution by the regional soviet on 20 February which called for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred back to Armenia . |
| 14 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |