Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for which " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general election will be the opportunity for which we have waited . |
| 2 | Yet the unity for which Paul strongly argues is not a uniformity . |
| 3 | The provision for which the funding councils will be responsible goes well beyond the purely vocational . |
| 4 | Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied . |
| 5 | Now they tended to find their victims , and the loot for which they came , locked behind strong walls ; if they ventured too far , they found garrisons sallying from these fortresses and cutting off their escape . |
| 6 | However , like many genetically determined characteristics — some of which indeed may be responsible for illness or deviance — such dispositions may not be expressed , or , if they are , expressed in incomplete form , or even revealed in qualities which at first sight seem distant from , even unconnected with , the pathology for which they are otherwise responsible . |
| 7 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the nuns will live close by , enabling them to supervise building work the money for which has come from donations worldwide . |
| 9 | Less than three years on he is one of ‘ us ’ in the establishment and happy to acknowledge that the reorganisation for which he stridently called is , albeit belatedly , being carried out . |
| 10 | It was exactly the over-reaction for which the strike organisers had hoped . |
| 11 | Like the faith for which they argue , the best books are there not to collect dust but to stretch minds and to shed light . |
| 12 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 13 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 14 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 15 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 16 | Since this is a fun , letting-your-hair-down sort of show , there is also a trampoline , a rocking horse , a model , pedal-powered and car battery-operated train as well as rides on Muffin the Mule for which you need only a 5p token that can be purchased , by the bucketful downstairs . |
| 17 | This is how , in his partly autobiographical World of Surfing , he described the wave for which he is still remembered : |
| 18 | The intention to do so must therefore be made perfectly clear , for otherwise the court will consider that the exempted party was only to be free from liability in respect of damage occasioned by causes other than the negligence for which he is answerable . |
| 19 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 20 | It is , so what it means when it 's lost is , it is not able to fulfil the function for which it was made . |
| 21 | They reject not only the Soviet claim that October and the overthrow of capitalism blazed the trail for which all humanity is destined , but the very notion of laws governing the historical process . |
| 22 | It was not enough to have modern weapons and ‘ the best of young Irishmen ’ if the people did not understand the nature of the freedom for which they were fighting and that |
| 23 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 24 | Create the wordlist for which filtered definitions are required . |
| 25 | These examples gave the journalists the story for which they were looking , and they used them in headlines to show that our Report was against the teaching of grammar and ‘ correct ’ English , and that we favoured a policy of ‘ anything goes ’ . |
| 26 | At first the track was lined with bright terraces of beehives , their owners in makeshift tents busily extracting the honey for which Thassos is famous . |
| 27 | A stage-hand upset him and he replied with a withering flow of invective , the kind for which he was not generally known . |
| 28 | But it 's unlikely there will ever be an equal to the play for which Christie collected a special award at the age of 82 . |
| 29 | Will he abandon his ideological dictation from the centre and work with teachers to bring in the changes in the curriculum for which the report calls ? |
| 30 | If you are considering applying for deferred entry , you should discuss this possibility with your head teacher and should also write to the Faculty of Science and Engineering Office , stating the course for which you intend to apply and your reasons for seeking deferment . |