Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 2 | Only two of the five parties which applied for registration had been accepted — the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , and the Democratic Renewal Party ( PRD ) . |
| 3 | The parties which voted for Pawlak were the three which had proposed the no confidence motion against Olszewski [ see p. 38921 ] , namely the Democratic Union ( UD ) ( except its Democratic Right faction ) , the Liberal Democratic Congress ( KLD ) and the Polish Economic Programme ( PPG ) , plus his own PSL , the KPN , and the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Measurements of calcium in fertilized eggs or lymphocytes following mitogenic stimulation revealed the existence of repetitive calcium spikes which persisted for as long as several hours . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Urim and Thummim ( 18:30 ) : two objects which stood for " yes " and " no " . |
| 8 | Outstanding among these were Ana Maria Pacheco 's ‘ Head ’ ( lot 171 ) , a totemic carved and painted wooden head with real teeth which sold for £4,500 ( $6,750 ; est. £2,000–3,000 ) . |
| 9 | However , most of the cases which arose for decision were concerned with payments extracted ultra vires by persons who in virtue of their position could insist on the wrongful payment as a precondition to affording the payer his legal rights i.e. they were payments colore officii . |
| 10 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
| 11 | The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped . |
| 12 | In 1508–9 , 20 per cent of the value of Newcastle 's trade was already in coal , and in the following decade there was a boom in coal exports which compensated for a slump in those of wool . |
| 13 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 14 | I looked at Harvey , but he was staring at his feet which twitched for another little dance . |
| 15 | Index linked National Savings Certificates were popular up until the early 1980's , but with a fall in inflation they have tended to be eclipsed by the popularity of fixed interest certificates which accounted for about 16 per cent of total assets in 1990 . |
| 16 | This in turn produced a sharper contrast than in 1980–1 between ( a ) responses which emphasized the need to strengthen and buttress the role of the police , and ( b ) responses which called for greater emphasis on the rejuvenation of the social and economic fabric of the inner cities . |
| 17 | There was unprecedented Soviet media coverage : Moscow Radio had announced the march in advance and had urged " all democratically minded Muscovites to take part " , while Soviet television news showed close-up shots , not just of banners with slogans attacking the communist monopoly and party conservatives , but even of isolated placards which called for Gorbachev 's resignation . |
| 18 | In Egypt the Jews had to take sides in the hostilities between the various factions which competed for whatever power was left under the virtual protectorate of Rome . |
| 19 | Considerable efforts were made to fill the gaps which existed for earlier decades , notably by the acquisition of a large collection of Richelieu 's papers in 1705 , while in 1710 Torcy had most of the archive moved from Versailles , where it had hitherto been , to the Louvre ( the papers covering the years since 1698 remained at Versailles to be used in the daily business of the ministry ) . |
| 20 | Both techniques proved to have been subject to persistent human errors which accounted for at least part of the apparent change in the size of the Sun . |
| 21 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 22 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 23 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This and other statements were clear enough , and it seems a little one-sided to attribute causal power to one set of statements — those which encouraged Protestants to reject the O'Neill government — and yet deny causal power to those statements which called for such rejection to be confined within the limits of legality . |
| 26 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 27 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |
| 28 | And yet , he painted delicate water colours which sold for high prices . |
| 29 | Some of the complaints , of course , reflected political strains which called for general solution by legislation . |
| 30 | 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 . |