Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 2 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 3 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 4 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 5 | The report represents a victory for the Confederation of British Industry and a lobby led by Emma Nicholson , Tory MP for Devon West and Torridge , which had campaigned for tough new laws . |
| 6 | The policy change , which the 600-member council endorsed , was nonetheless a victory for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a broad alliance which had campaigned for urgent constitutional changes on the grounds that the referendum was unnecessary . |
| 7 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 8 | Born out of a particular set of circumstances , the treaty did little to unite France , but served rather to underline the divisions which had existed for two decades or more . |
| 9 | Outside , the storm continued furiously all night , and in the morning we discovered that the great tree at the bottom of the garden , which had stood for hundreds of years , had been hit by lightning and torn in half . |
| 10 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 11 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 12 | The decision in Lawrence was a clear decision of this House upon the construction of the word ‘ appropriate ’ in section 1(1) of the Act , which had stood for 12 years when doubt was thrown upon it by obiter dicta in Morris . |
| 13 | Mr Hamilton also took a swipe at the defence select committee 's report which had called for all infantry battalion amalgamations , including merger of four Scottish regiments , to be cancelled . |
| 14 | Opposition parties — which had called for two rounds of voting — claimed that the provisions were designed to give the advantage to the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( RDPC ) over emerging opposition parties which had intended to join forces during the campaign . |
| 15 | And excessive centralisation had often been the fault of the republics and regions themselves , which had competed for major investments by offering to reduce spending on social requirements . |
| 16 | Although the transition from Kenyatta to Moi was nominally smooth , it was in fact the culmination of a battle for power which had lasted for 12 years . |
| 17 | He had been admitted with a fever which had lasted for three weeks . |
| 18 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |