Example sentences of "which [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 2 | Majority opinion in the ILP was best expressed in the resolution moved on behalf of the Rugby Branch , which argued for continued affiliation on the basis of a satisfactory revision of Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 3 | Black people are now moving back to the People 's National Movement , which ruled for 30 years before Mr Robinson came to power . |
| 4 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 7 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 8 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 9 | The oldest known tree was a bristlecone pine in Nevada which lived for 5100 years . |
| 10 | Underneath the black hair , the man 's fleshy lips curled into a grimace which passed for a smile . |
| 11 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 12 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 13 | It finished only just ahead of the Alliance poll of 26 per cent ( which produced for them only seventeen Liberal and six SDP seats ) . |
| 14 | In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market . |
| 15 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 16 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 17 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 18 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |
| 19 | The existence of a strong Hellenizing party in Jerusalem , which asked for and obtained the support of the Seleucid king , explains what in Hellenistic terms was the exceptional behaviour of Antiochus IV . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The system chosen was a form which asked for the name of the pupil , their form , and the author and title of the book borrowed . |
| 22 | They used to talk to him endlessly about it , he said , so he grew up hearing about ‘ this enchanted world ’ which became for him rather like fairy stories for other people . |
| 23 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 24 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 25 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 27 | ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’ |
| 28 | The idea of the humane , creatively enlightened State , which cared for ordinary men and their development , was in his thinking always overshadowed by that of the power-State , Spartan , demanding and careless of the feelings or immediate interests of the individual . |
| 29 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 30 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |