Example sentences of "which [be] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 2 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 3 | Examining these theories from pragmatics will involve us in a substantial digression from our main concern : which is to account for our intuitions of coherence and thus gain insight into the needs of the language learner , who after all aims to be able to produce coherent discourse , not isolated sentences . |
| 4 | Resolved , That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 7573/91 and the Supplementary Explanatory Memoranda submitted by the Department of Trade and Industry on 6th November and 11th December 1991 and 10157/91 , relating to standards for satellite broadcasting of television signals , and 8122/91 , relating to audio-visual production in the context of the strategy for high definition television ; and endorses the Government 's approach which is to aim for the correct balance between promoting new broadcasting technologies , protecting the rights of satellite broadcasters and serving the best interests of consumers . |
| 5 | BASF 's approach , he adds , reflects the German mentality , which is to prepare for every possible risk . |
| 6 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 8 | Surviving vicious family feuds and a number of humiliations at the hands of the English , Malcolm III established a line which was to last for over two centuries . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 10 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 11 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 12 | Thus , he set up his own windsurfing and surfing business at Whitesands which was to run for 2 years . |
| 13 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 14 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |