Example sentences of "[pron] for which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 2 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 3 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 4 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 5 | We then start to use our voluntary muscles for support — something for which they were not designed . |
| 6 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 7 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 8 | But Ann Veronica 's slow awakening , albeit eighty years ago , is not so unfamiliar to us now , when there is a sense that our own desire , our own pleasure , is something for which we have to struggle . |
| 9 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |
| 10 | However , it is something for which one develops an instinct , or feel , over the years . |
| 11 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 12 | He looks surprised when I ask if it is difficult to put so much energy into something for which you do n't get paid : ‘ It makes absolutely no difference at all . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The wealth of letters and contents therein is something for which I am ever grateful . |
| 15 | The ordination of women was something for which I was supposed to argue . |
| 16 | ‘ That is something for which I no longer have the slightest desire , ’ he assured her . |
| 17 | But there is something for which I have rather more difficulty in forgiving him . |
| 18 | But that he had a feminist analysis of society is something for which there is no evidence . |
| 19 | They may be convinced of something for which there is no obvious justification — perhaps that they are being pursued by secret agents ( delusions ) . |
| 20 | In June a soldier of the German 50th Division before Fort Vaux declared that ‘ the torture of having to lie powerless and defenceless in the middle of an artillery battle ’ was ‘ something for which there is nothing comparable on earth ’ . |
| 21 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 22 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 23 | She must have done something for which she was now being made to pay . |
| 24 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 25 | Oh sure , it can be a tonic , and it 's useful as glucose if you just want to kick things over , but , come the advent of a newer and more just social order , the one for which we all cry out , there would be no place for the scandal and achievement of pop , for Prince and any foul Beasties . |
| 26 | They embody one of South Africa 's great wrongs — and one for which we British share responsibility with the Boers . |
| 27 | In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers . |
| 28 | Selection procedures have thus been largely exercises in historical data gathering , confirming the ability of candidates to do their present job rather than the one for which they have applied . |
| 29 | Therefore it could be classified as a special project — one for which there was constant demand . |
| 30 | This means not only that forecasts must be made for each sector separately but that the base year should be the last one for which there were no constraints on the supply of places . |