Example sentences of "which had [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greater London Council which had powers for road traffic , housing , strategic planning , education for inner London , the main sewers and sewage disposal works , fire fighting services , certain civil defence functions , licensing of theatres and betting tracks , parks and open spaces and a number of other minor functions , was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985 . |
| 2 | The Stock Exchange 's damning report was sent to the Bank of England and to the Department of Trade 's Licensing Unit , which had responsibility for allowing financial groups to stay in operation . |
| 3 | Reiner Gohlke , executive president of the Treuhandanstalt ( trustee agency ) which had responsibility for overseeing the restructuring of the state-owned businesses in East Germany , resigned on Aug. 20 because of policy disagreements with other members of the governing board [ see p. 37536 for his appointment where his post is wrongly given as chair ] . |
| 4 | Despite Bush 's support for Puerto Rican statehood ( declared in 1989 ) , the referendum plan was killed on Feb. 27 , 1991 , when the US Senate energy and natural resources committee ( which had responsibility for the legislation ) failed to secure a majority to bring the bill authorizing the referendum before the Senate . |
| 5 | The Mantela , which had berths for six passengers in moderately comfortable cabins , boasted no luxuries like private bathrooms or toilets . |
| 6 | As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy . |
| 7 | On an average day in 1999 there were 49,979 people in prison in England and Wales , in a prison system which had room for only 44 , 179 . |