Example sentences of "[noun pl] for which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 2 | In its report , the House of Representatives natural resources committee identified former military ranges , hazardous chemical dumps and mines for which the government is potentially liable . |
| 3 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 4 | A licence is that consent which , without passing any interest in the property to which it relates , merely prevents the acts for which consent is given from being wrongful . |
| 5 | In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories . |
| 6 | One possibility is to retreat to an ostensive or extensional definition , i.e. simply to provide a list of the phenomena for which a pragmatic theory must account ( cf. |
| 7 | To begin with , the reasons for which artists show together are varied . |
| 8 | The ‘ leopards and broom plants ’ , Plantagenet emblems , signify the dynastic reasons for which Henry the young king was killed , as were Rizzio and Mary 's husband Darnley centuries later . |
| 9 | Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ? |
| 10 | It presupposes a reasonable belief in the existence of some other reasons for which consent is valid in some circumstances and the misled person 's mistaken belief that these reasons apply to his case . |
| 11 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 12 | The reasons for which it is drawn influence the way it is drawn . |
| 13 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 14 | I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 15 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 16 | However , by section 10 of the Employment Act 1988 the immunity is withdrawn where the reason or one of the reasons for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the employer is employing non-union labour . |
| 17 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 18 | These are globally averaged values of altitude variations , the zero of altitude being taken at a pressure of 1 bar : see section 3.3.1 for the reasons for which a pressure value is an appropriate choice of zero for altitude . |
| 19 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 20 | These are objects for which the compact object is normally thought to be a neutron star ; the most popular model for the QPOs involves interaction between an accretion flow and the magnetosphere of the neutron star . |
| 21 | The objects for which the company was formed . |
| 22 | Indeed , this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes : how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity ? |
| 23 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 24 | Table 4.3 shows at a glance the magnitude of flows for which various classes of NBFI were responsible in 1987 . |
| 25 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 26 | Dr ‘ Bothwell ’ Because we 're so over-burdened by relative trivia and social problems , we can not utilise the skills for which we 're trained … we 're trained to treat medical problems … |
| 27 | But what is peculiar to the doctor is that the successful action , the save , is seen to be brought about through the use of the esoteric skills for which he trained and which , by and large , remain untested and unused . |
| 28 | Because they have skills for which there is an excess demand , their security , not in an individual assignment but of being able to earn , is relatively great . |
| 29 | Why should a politician not peddle policies for which an electorate might wish to vote ? |
| 30 | This created a tendency for the administrator to facilitate the flow of benefits which the state frequently confers upon private enterprise to private businessmen for a return , and , indeed , involve himself in a variety of legal and illegal activities for which the post of senior government servant is advantageous . |