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

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1 Since not all circumstances can be envisaged in advance , there must be a provisional element within attitudes , which allows for their development , as the context of controversy develops and changes .
2 It is characterized by bargaining over indicative or strategic plans which depend for their success upon voluntary co-operation between elites who are capable of withdrawing from any bargains struck ( Shonfield , 1965 ; Crouch , 1982 ) .
3 Moreover , Arabic tends to use a relatively small number of conjunctions , each of which has a wide range of meanings which depend for their interpretation on the context , thus relying heavily on the reader 's ability to infer relationships which are only vaguely alluded to by the writer .
4 It should be noted , too , that government conduct can be authorized by ‘ prerogative ’ powers which depend for their existence on recognition by the courts .
5 By contrast the International Chamber of Commerce , which is an international non-governmental organization with national Chambers of Commerce as its members , promotes non-law instruments which depend for their effect upon contractual incorporation .
6 Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ .
7 Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish .
8 Night Goblin shamans are especially well-versed in fungus lore — they know which mushrooms can be eaten safely , which to avoid , and which to use for their potions and brews .
9 It accepts the priority of the process of objectification over either subject or object and recognizes that it is only the process itself which accounts for their appearance as discrete .
10 In short , those passages which rely for their effect on colour-contrasts rather than on colour-blending are most suitable for wind alone .
11 Elsewhere , settlements like the Magdalensburg and Feldkirchen in Noricum , which depended for their prosperity on the famous Norican iron , are good examples .
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