Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] which [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Although it is the traditional culture which continues to manage the western world , Snow argued , only science can feed that world , create wealth , provide hope for the poor and the sick , and forge the essential links between intellect and practicality which make for a proper wisdom and awareness of moral and social issues .
2 Having gone out onto the lake as calm as the surface itself , he had caught , as it might be , some of the immovable unsettling darkness and chill which lay for ever imprisoned deep below , like his own too-recent self .
3 The situation here is a familiar one in anthropology : the recognition of degrees of commonality of attitude and belief which provides for the variable definition of what constitutes cultural boundaries .
4 Well , a look at the Mizuno brochure will tell you that , when used in conjunction with graphite and boron , it assists in the provision of impact resistance and vibration dampening while increasing stiffness for its pro Series 9.2 , the top of the range racket for the advanced club or professional player and racket which retails for £139 .
5 Theories which aim to explain social phenomena do so through methods of investigation and interpretation which strive for internal consistency , comprehensiveness , and conceptual clarity .
6 As Huntington says , it is the total system with its inherent opposition and paradox which makes for the novel 's interest .
7 One of his first undertakings was to transfer the Tropical African Services Course from the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , ‘ which is not frequented by other students of a kind to make good Administrative officers ’ , to Oxford and Cambridge , where ‘ it would , I am sure , spread interest in our services among other undergraduates of the type we want ’ ; and the great triumph of his career as a bureaucrat was to persuade the Warren Fisher committee , set up in 1927 to examine methods of recruitment into the Colonial Service , that it was unnecessary to look further afield for men ‘ who possess the qualities of mind , character and personality which make for success in the leadership of native … races ’ .
8 This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports .
9 Although evolution decrees that species of plant and animal which survive for long periods are shaped to the advantages determined by natural selection , progress over time to larger size might be a law of nature independent of environmental factors .
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