Example sentences of "which had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 4 | The group 's book printing business had performed well , he said , increasing market share in hardbacks , which had compensated for a fall in demand for mass market paperbacks during the six months . |
| 5 | One wonders whether this can be the same nation which had gained for itself the reputation of being a stolid , pipe-sucking manhood , unmoved by panic or excitement , and reliable in the tightest of places . |
| 6 | Elaine 's face , which had pleaded for her understanding , became closed and withdrawn . |
| 7 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 8 | It was the law of joint enterprise in homicide which had done for him , the same law which had hanged Derek Bentley . |
| 9 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
| 10 | Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired . |
| 11 | It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness . |
| 12 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 13 | The Wyndham Act of 1903 gave the deathblow to the old landlord system which had existed for centuries . |
| 14 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 18 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 19 | The US resolution was not supported by the PLO which had pressed for the dispatch of a mission reporting directly to the Security Council ( i.e. not to the UN Secretary-General ) . |
| 20 | This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system . |
| 21 | The problems which had arisen for the Government were the rising prison population , and the cost of imprisonment . |
| 22 | I recognise that it is , equally , a disappointment for the other yards which had tendered for the work , and for the people in those areas . |
| 23 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 24 | First , Parliament gave statutory recognition and reinforcement to the existing regime of contractual receivers appointed by debenture holders which had operated for the public benefit . |
| 25 | In reply to a letter from Sheldon Vanauken , who , after his wife 's death , wrote to Lewis about their love which had remained for him an end in itself , Lewis replied : |
| 26 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 27 | For although there was work here , there had never been enough to supply the desperate horde which had applied for it , choking this ancient heart of the town to death with its demands for air and space and water , overwhelming its sanity resources , clogging its sewage channels , fouling its canal , draining its reservoirs . |
| 28 | Albania , which had applied for membership in the IMF and the Bank in January 1991 , was admitted as the 156th member of each organization on the opening day of the plenary meetings on Oct. 15 . |
| 29 | He showed me a number of meticulous pencil drawings which had served for portraits . |
| 30 | The dual system of rule which had prevailed for centuries was formally ended and national government brought under the aegis of the reigning sovereign whose authority was recognized throughout the country . |