Example sentences of "a [noun sg] which [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , you have a case which asks for an answer divided into two main sections , which means that you ca n't use the classic problem-solving structure . |
| 2 | Seldom , if ever , in the last 10 years has the world governing body of cricket made a decision which called for guts . |
| 3 | If it is a technique which works for you then by all means use it . |
| 4 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 5 | A HOSPICE which cares for the terminally ill is holding a special fund-raising week . |
| 6 | Miloš and Marasli negotiated a settlement which provided for a Serbian administration , based on a national council of the knezovi of each of the twelve nahijes , who in their own districts would work alongside a Turkish administrator ( müsellim ) . |
| 7 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 8 | On the other hand it may represent a genuine attempt by specialists in related subjects to sit down together and plan a programme which allows for separate activities but suggests common themes and provides examples of integrated lessons as in the Nigerian Cultural and Creative Art syllabus . |
| 9 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 10 | In Medieval times the Benedictine monasteries had a rule which called for ‘ the care of the sick to be placed above and before every other thing , as if indeed Christ were being directly served in waiting upon them ’ . |
| 11 | The ruling Military Committee of National Salvation ( CMSN ) on July 25 adopted a law which allowed for the setting up of political parties , with the exception of specifically Islamic parties or parties based on race or region . |
| 12 | This is a scene which calls for imaginative lighting The tree and its decorations should sparkle against darker backgrounds . |
| 13 | He won 31 caps — a record which stood for 42 years . |
| 14 | Instead , he proposed a package which provided for the highest degree of democratization permitted under the Basic Law , the colony 's Constitution which had been approved by China in 1990 . |
| 15 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |
| 16 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 17 | A charity which paid for a group of Russian orphans to have a holiday in England has brought them back again . |
| 18 | The visit ended on Sept. 28 with the signing of a communiqué which called for negotiations aimed at the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries . |
| 19 | In other words , women 's professional golf is a career which calls for far more in the way of personal sacrifice than most are prepared to acknowledge . |
| 20 | We also ask you to contribute to a kitty which pays for the children 's food and drinks . |
| 21 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 22 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |
| 23 | He develops a theory which accounts for changing attitudes in terms of largely unexplained swings between ‘ matrist ’ and ‘ patrist ’ cultures , leaving us with a grandiloquent but unsubstantiated cyclical theory of social change . |
| 24 | Underneath the black hair , the man 's fleshy lips curled into a grimace which passed for a smile . |
| 25 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 26 | Fifthly , it is evident that criminal law is in some sense of the term a subject which calls for interdisciplinary study . |
| 27 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 28 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 29 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 30 | The first question is whether the procedure under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 is a matter which calls for a formal hearing by a court consisting of at least two justices . |