Example sentences of "which is [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 2 | The Cellophane which is made for wrapping and packaging is therefore protected by a very thin coating , on each face , of a water-resistant lacquer . |
| 3 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 5 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 6 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 7 | Some are cash crops , particularly wheat which the farmers sell to the flour mills in Leith and Glasgow , and barley , about half of which is sold for making beer and whisky in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Assessment which is used for providing feedback to those most centrally concerned with a pupil 's learning , the pupil , the pupil 's teacher and parents , is often known as " formative " in contrast to " summative " which is mainly for external purposes . |
| 9 | Nominal price of the share ; this is the nominal value which is used for accounting purposes in the annual accounts . |
| 10 | Since the spacing patterns are the same for all normal distributions the divisions are carried forward to provide the probability ordinate scaling for the arithmetic probability graph which is used for plotting cumulative size distributions . |
| 11 | This result suggests that the human visual system exploits the fact that the differential perspective effects increase with increasing eccentricity and consequently pools this information across quite large visual extents to obtain an estimate of absolute distance which is used for scaling disparities . |
| 12 | The active Program Group window has a highlighted border which is used for re-sizing . |
| 13 | M more importantly , the technique which is used for predicting traffic flows which the County Council ha have used . |
| 14 | Nathalie Ions and Clare Jefferson , aged seven and eight , both live on Blue Hall estate , which is included for revamping in the City Challenge bid . |
| 15 | There may be something in the view that many environmental regulations in the United States are over-stringent , but an insurance market that boasts of insuring all risks , and which is paid for doing to , can not logically complain when unforeseen risks are realized . |