Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 2 | The exchange controls which had been strictly enforced for over forty years were removed in 1979 and this enabled both sovereign and corporate borrowers from abroad to issue sterling-denominated bonds in London . |
| 3 | The Teds took their name from the ‘ Edwardian ’ dress-style which had been originally promoted for fashion-conscious city gents who wished to cut an affluent fifties dash . |
| 4 | His wife wash d and shaved him , and ensured that he swallowed the twenty-six pills each day which had been mainly prescribed for his heart . |
| 5 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 6 | In 1927 , a district known as the Housewife Lane area was demolished as a slum clearance scheme and its population of 710 ( 152 families ) was moved to the Mount Pleasant Estate , a self-contained municipal housing estate which had been specially built for the purpose . |
| 7 | At the same time , the First Leisure Corporation presented the Association with a £17,000 coach which had been specially customised for use at Sussexdown . |
| 8 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |