Example sentences of "which [vb past] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 2 | It was an ‘ evolutionary ’ model that was being proposed , and it was endorsed by the Council , which asked for further work to be done on some details , and for the proposals to be published . |
| 3 | What 's more , the early EG models , which sold for just under £600 , did n't seem to have the feel or charisma of the Customs and Classics . |
| 4 | It seemed , too , that the fusion thing had run its course and become fuzak , which made for too easy listening . |
| 5 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |
| 6 | On Jan. 17 , 1991 , Heseltine announced the local government finance arrangements for 1991/92 , which provided for over £4,250 million more in extra support to local government than had already been granted in July 1990 for 1990-91 [ see p. 37623 ] In the budget , presented on March 19 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont , a " substantial switch was proposed from local to central taxation , amounting to £4,250 million in 1991/92 , and the reducing net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million [ see p. 38110 ] . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just had a dreadful thought , ’ said Chrissie , her eyes wide with foreboding and an ominous throb in her voice which seemed for once totally natural . |
| 8 | There , it 's fair to say , I was very much involved , and that was a once in a lifetime event which happened for very complex reasons . |
| 9 | Measurements of calcium in fertilized eggs or lymphocytes following mitogenic stimulation revealed the existence of repetitive calcium spikes which persisted for as long as several hours . |
| 10 | In the course of its provincial party convention on March 9-10 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec adopted the Allaire report which called for almost full political autonomy for the province , contrary to the proposals put forward in the Meech Lake Accord [ for collapse of which in June 1990 see p. 37519 ] and despite the opposition of the party leader and Quebec Premier , Robert Bourassa . |
| 11 | Relic terraces and raised fields in the Mayan lowlands of Central America have been interpreted as indicative of a settled , sophisticated , intensive , prehistoric agriculture , rather than shifting cultivation , which collapsed for just these reasons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 14 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 15 | In 1694 he was returned to Parliament , beginning a Commons career which lasted for more than sixty years as MP for Carlisle 1694–1702 , Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55 , and Appleby 1723–7 . |
| 16 | Although chronic diarrhoea ( defined by them as greater than 21 days duration ) occurred most frequently in this age group , this amounted to only 6% of cases — that is , 94% had diarrhoea which lasted for less than 21 days . |
| 17 | During the service , which lasted for almost seven hours , the lifeboat took nine people off a stranded coaster , helped refloat her and put out a fire in a chip pan in the vessel 's galley ! |
| 18 | The PKO bill was finally approved by the upper house in the early hours of June 9 by 137 votes to 102 following a major filibustering effort by the SDPJ and the Japan Communist Party ( JCP ) which lasted for almost four days and nights . |
| 19 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 20 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 22 | The belief in Britain 's power to do good in the world , which had for so long underpinned popular internationalism , no longer seemed tenable . |
| 23 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 24 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 25 | Mounted on a white horse , he rode into the city which had for so long defied and denied him . |
| 26 | For example , the relationship between education and economic need — which had for long been a matter of concern in Britain and the object of telling comparisons with Germany and the USA — was never fundamentally tackled [ Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 27 | In key respects the views of Whitehall coincided with those of the Central Electricity Board , which had for long felt that its own , indirect control of power station construction was inadequate . |
| 28 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 29 | European turnover was $100m for the year , which accounted for nearly a third of Sequent 's total sales . |
| 30 | Redundancies , which accounted for 37 per cent of job losses , dismissals , which accounted for nearly 15 per cent , and voluntary resignations , which accounted for another 37 per cent , were all more important . |