Example sentences of "[pron] for which " in BNC.
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| 1 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 2 | The church has nothing for which to apologize . |
| 3 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 4 | When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists . |
| 5 | The obscure Boso , an alumnus of the monastic school at Regensburg , looks like the perfect exemplar of everything for which Alcuin had argued . |
| 6 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 7 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 8 | In apparent contravention of everything for which committed reformers had striven , the statutes stated explicitly that all land remained the property of the gentry . |
| 9 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 10 | s12 Every partner is liable jointly with his co-partners and also severally for everything for which the firm while he is a partner therein becomes liable under either of the two last preceding sections . |
| 11 | This is something for which surveys , including that of Greeley and Rossi , are not and can not be intended . |
| 12 | The polished Mr Baker , in defence of Mr Lawson 's interest rates , even brought himself to shout , something for which the conference handbook , in its Suggestions to Speakers on page 46 , says there is no need . |
| 13 | But Ann Veronica 's slow awakening , albeit eighty years ago , is not so unfamiliar to us now , when there is a sense that our own desire , our own pleasure , is something for which we have to struggle . |
| 14 | She must have done something for which she was now being made to pay . |
| 15 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 16 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 17 | However , it is something for which one develops an instinct , or feel , over the years . |
| 18 | This is something for which teachers need preparation . |
| 19 | We then start to use our voluntary muscles for support — something for which they were not designed . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |
| 22 | What we are fighting for is something for which Jesus himself took time out to pray for on the night he was betrayed : the unity of believers . |
| 23 | This intimacy also is something for which the world still waits . |
| 24 | Instead , the effect is to prettify the whole thing , something for which designer William Dudley needs no second invitation . |
| 25 | ‘ That is surely something for which to be thankful . ’ |
| 26 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 27 | The wealth of letters and contents therein is something for which I am ever grateful . |
| 28 | Also , they were perhaps inclined to adopt the world view of their respondents at the expense of other perspectives ( such as those of young women for example ) — something for which ethnographers are often criticised . |
| 29 | He looks surprised when I ask if it is difficult to put so much energy into something for which you do n't get paid : ‘ It makes absolutely no difference at all . |
| 30 | The ordination of women was something for which I was supposed to argue . |