Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor . |
| 2 | Jesus Christ several times appeared to her with a sweet and gracious countenance , saying to her to rouse her courage , ‘ remember my love , that the bed of the cross on which I died for love of you was harder , narrower and more painful than that on which you are now lying' ’ . |
| 3 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 4 | Inside the solid lumps of our brain lives the experience which appears to the subject as an ordered world , the room in which I write for example . |
| 5 | We have just sent a supplementary response to the WTB which I enclose for information . |
| 6 | At a junk-shop a little further along I saw a china snuff-box painted with ribbons in lover's-knots , and an M on the lid , which I bought for Mavis . |
| 7 | I reflect with sadness upon the emotional hiatus which I have for England . |
| 8 | My data here come from two conversations : one between two men , recorded for the Survey of English Usage , a large corpus-based project on the structure of educated British English , and one between two women — feminists — which I recorded for purposes of comparison . |
| 9 | In our Polymer Research Group , there are erm people doing research on novel plastics for erm credit cards , for additives to plastics which you use for credit cards , to give bank cards and credit cards a longer lifetime . |
| 10 | If you do n't believe in the fundamentals underlying the latest fashion , go back to " square one " and carefully examine ( and develop ) the basic principles on which you manage for profit . |
| 11 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 12 | One historian has written that the criticism was not that the charges were too high , but that there were any at all and has explained the opposition to fixed charges as conservative reaction to a money economy in which one paid for services rendered . |
| 13 | If we must , we can use classed ranks — a hybrid between rating and ranking — in which we ask for assignment to a top class , second class , etc. , there being relatively few classes . |
| 14 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 15 | We might at least be fair about the ways in which we account for pupils ' behaviour . |
| 16 | But it is extremely important to remember that the teaching of undergraduate students in the eighteen to twenty-one age group is only a part , that 's the one people usually evaluate universities , but it 's only a part of the job which we do for society . |
| 17 | On the north side of this square , and just across from the famous 13th century well , is the Hotel Leon Bianco which we picked for Citalia guests three years ago and which immediately found favour amongst them . |
| 18 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 19 | In proportional hazards models in which we adjusted for age and several other potential con-founders the severity of periodontal disease had a small effect on the risk of coronary heart disease ( table III ) . |
| 20 | But the plump little white ducks and the fresh St-Marcellin cheeses from the Isère , the exquisite black and green olives from Nyons which we bought for lunch tempted us to drive north or south-east of Valence instead of directly south . |
| 21 | We could enlarge the numbers of books which we have for sale in Lombard Street . |
| 22 | We grow and sell a large range of herbs and cottage garden plants in pots and we also grow many herb flowers which we dry for use in herbal garlands and baskets . |
| 23 | Employment , impartment of the voluntary sector is one of the fo one of the four er , basic areas which we define for support er , against their background of er , of targeting . |
| 24 | In order to maintain living standards , marginal land was brought into cultivation causing disruption of the traditional interplay between cultivators and nomadic herders ; the former provided millet and sorghum as staple crops which they exchanged for animal products and the benefits of having their lands fertilised by animal herds . |
| 25 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 26 | The remedies which they prescribe for Britain involve the separation of social insurance for health , pensions and employment from social assistance to those in unpredictable need . |
| 27 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 28 | ‘ It would be impossible to say too much in praise of consultant Ernest Sinar and his colleagues and staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital for the way in which they cared for Jo and the family during the time she was there . ’ |
| 29 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 30 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |