Example sentences of "who for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force . |
| 2 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 3 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 4 | My scepticism has been reinforced by the recent work of Frederick Crews , who for many years was a leading psychoanalytic critic in America . |
| 5 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 6 | Ingmar Bergman , who for some years now has been insistent that Fanny and Alexander was his farewell to the moving image , has decided to stage a come-back with a project called The Good Will . |
| 7 | INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS Surrealism and erotic fantasy are recurring themes in a retrospective on Meret Oppenheim , the German-Swiss artist , who for a time was a model and follower of Man Ray . |
| 8 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 9 | Sir William , who claims that fragmentation will damage Britain 's world influence in conservation , is a merchant banker who for two years after joining the NCC combined banking with conservation . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 11 | The conflict of interest is glaringly obvious , but the only likely alternative in the current parliament seems to be the leader of the opposition Liberal Party — Jean Chretien , a French Canadian who for years represented Quebec ridings as a minister in Pierre Trudeau 's era . |
| 12 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 13 | Put yourself in the position of one of the bystanders on the path of Christ 's passion : Are you not moved to tears of remorse by the only Begotten Son of God , who for you and all mankind , in his innocence , was seized , dragged along , blindfolded , mocked , spat upon , crowned with thorns , finally hanged between thieves on the cross ? … |
| 14 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 15 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 16 | Yes , we 'll encourage people to stand on their own two feet , but we 'll also seek to aid those who for a variety of reasons need a bit of extra help . |
| 17 | But the curious pair who for a time were so well-known simply for being rich vanished from the public eye — towards a tax haven in Jersey . |
| 18 | ‘ Like who for instance ? ’ |
| 19 | Though clearly , whatever the logic of the situation , Hitler could still rely upon substantial bonds of undying allegiance among his most loyal supporters , especially of course those who for years had been exposed to the full brunt of Party organization and indoctrination , there seems little doubt that the mass base of unquestioned trust in Hitler was already in 1942 beginning to give way . |
| 20 | The same can probably be claimed for those who for reasons which had little to do with humanitarian concern — fearing Jewish revenge in the event of a lost war , or blaming Hitler for bringing on the war through attacking the Jews , attitudes which of course themselves betrayed the influence of Nazi ‘ Jewish conspiracy ’ propaganda — were voicing criticism of Nazi anti Jewish policy . |
| 21 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 22 | Those who want to be paid-up , signed-up members and those who for one reason or another do not actually want to become a member but are keen to be kept informed , involved and used as the occasion demands . |
| 23 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 24 | Some ministers , like John Stoughton or Henry W. Clark , who for an inexplicable reason named his Harpenden home , ‘ Charisma ’ , became respected historians . |
| 25 | This may be the case for some manual workers , though by no means all , but there are large numbers of people on low incomes who for one reason or another could be hurt by Labour 's plans . |
| 26 | It is also a much-needed corrective to the view of Mozart propagated by the play — and more especially the film — Amadeus as a dirty-minded , rather silly idiot who for some obscure reason was divinely inspired as a composer . |
| 27 | Pardoe is delighted by the prospect of going to market , although he 's reluctant to undercut the small shops who for years have kept the organic movement going . |
| 28 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 29 | Magee 's 30-year-old sister , Kathleen , who for several years has lived in a redbrick Victorian terrace house in Northumberland Street , Derby , with her seven-year-old son , Christopher , was being held last night . |
| 30 | Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well . |