Example sentences of "and which [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fruit of his labours for the RIIA was a volume of nearly 2,000 pages ( An African Survey , 1938 ) which immediately became the basis of intensive discussion at the Colonial Office and which secured for Hailey , until 1943 , an unrivalled position of influence in the Office 's debate on the future of Africa , which he himself had been instrumental in bringing into being . |
| 2 | There was a working-class element , centred on the Shankill Road , West Belfast , which was suspicious of the élite nature of the Unionist Party 's leadership and which campaigned for higher wages , better housing conditions , and various welfare provisions . |
| 3 | This has been achieved through the introduction of unleaded petrol in 1975 for use in cars equipped with catalytic converters ( lead ‘ poisons ’ the catalyst ) and which accounted for 89 per cent of all petrol sales in 1989 . |
| 4 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 5 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , talks were also continuing in Vienna on the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which had been signed in November 1990 by 22 states from eastern Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) [ see pp. 37838 ; 38255 ; 38458 ] , and which provided for a multilateral reduction of troop deployment levels in Europe as well as a general reduction of conventional weapons stockpiles . |
| 8 | He was one of the central figures in the Catholic Committee , a self-appointed body formed in 1778 , predominately lay in character and noble in membership , which saw itself as speaking for ‘ informed ’ Catholic opinion ( Petre always protected radicals among the clergy , such as Alexander Geddes , q.v. ) and which agitated for the freeing of the English Catholics from civil disabilities . |