Example sentences of "for [Wh det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a particularly bizarre practice , for which with typical resourcefulness Tylor coined the name teknonymy , involved calling a married person not by his own name but by that of his children . |
| 2 | What these characters are engaged in , however , is a competition for the attention of the camera , for which during the course of the film they posture and scheme . |
| 3 | For a host of reasons , the nation today has much for which to be thankful . |
| 4 | Most of us went to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day , and I felt I had so much for which to be profoundly thankful . |
| 5 | All year , as each season reveals its particular joy , there is so much for which to be thankful . |
| 6 | ‘ That is surely something for which to be thankful . ’ |
| 7 | There was another small mercy for which to be grateful . |
| 8 | The material in the early issues indicated a group high on advice , but low on the reportage for which at least some of its founders had hoped . |
| 9 | It applies to any profession regulated in some way by the state ( or by chartered professional associations , as is the case with many in the UK ) for which at least three years ' education and training at university or equivalent level are required . |
| 10 | Pat Williams told me she thought they were' a load of tripe' , but it was tripe that brought people into the cinemas for more than two decades and Ken became the staple part of a diet for which at one time the public seemed to have an insatiable appetite |
| 11 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 12 | This method is particularly valuable , since it can be applied to deposits produced by prehistoric eruptions , for which of course there are no observer 's records . |
| 13 | The ministry 's power consists only of agreeing the number of places to be advertised , for which of course it has to pay the bill . |
| 14 | We have some patterns of expectation available to us , indeed , but we are at the mercy of the poet for which of those patterns may lie ahead of us . |
| 15 | Ordered , That all Members who are returned for two or more places in any part of the United Kingdom to make their Election for which of the places they will serve , within one week after it shall appear that there is no question upon the Return for that place ; and if anything shall come in question touching the Return or Election of any Member , he is to withdraw during the time the matter is in debate ; and that all Members returned upon double Returns do withdraw till their Returns are determined . |
| 16 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 17 | I did n't attend the dinner , for which in a way I 'm now sorry , and Pound never forgot or forgave . |
| 18 | Now although evolutionary research can lead and indeed has led to major breakthroughs , it is so unlikely that it would not be sensible to concentrate on this type of research , for which in any case there are many potential sources of funds . |
| 19 | Cattle stealing , a crime which was often carried out at night and for which in many cases there was no true evidence , was particularly noted for testimony delivered in a set manner . |
| 20 | The artifact , thus , functions merely as an external signifier … for which in the collective consciousness there is a corresponding signification |
| 21 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 22 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 23 | Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby . |
| 24 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 25 | So is that for What about the week after that ? |
| 26 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 27 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 28 | It was very difficult to remember who had been for what at which particular period . |
| 29 | back seat for soccer this weekend but still an awful lot to play for what with Oxford fighting relegation and Swindon chasing promotion |
| 30 | Erm we asked the question about the aircraft 's reduced operational capabilities as far as Britain is concerned , we were told that there was no reduction , erm there was no percentage figure that could be produced but w now what about the other countries , I mean , which countries are asking for what to be omitted and by how much is the percentage , in percentage terms er is the performance of the aircraft reduced in those cases and further on from that , picking up something that that Wing Com er Group Captain Granville White has just mentioned which i is the question of sales . |