Example sentences of "which [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one in 100 workers in California 's fields is a union member , although many farm employers now provide the health benefits which Chavez fought for . |
| 2 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 3 | This grouping sought to oppose the civil rights programme in which Truman called for the establishment of a more powerful Fair Employment Practices Commission , a law to make lynching a Federal crime , and the removal of obstacles preventing blacks from voting . |
| 4 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 5 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 6 | Benjamin 's parent 's home was created by Richard Sylbert on a sound stage , but the underwater sequences , which Dustin practised for a week , were shot in a real outside pool with a glass wall for photographic purposes . |
| 7 | None of the television which Boy watched for so many hours made sense in a conventional way , because he watched television as if it was one continuous programme . |
| 8 | The Security Council vote on Croatia , a unanimous 15-0 , came after a lengthy debate in which Russia called for sanctions against the former Yugoslav republic if it failed to honour a peace agreement signed a year ago . |
| 9 | Among the portraits which Thomson painted for the R.A.F. was one of Wing-Commander Leonard Cheshire , D.F.C . |
| 10 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 11 | Which Eggar did for as the pain increased , so did his anger . |
| 12 | Just on half time number eight Hastings scored a push-over try which McGarry converted for a 17–0 lead . |
| 13 | Such a hierarchy confirmed that the ideal town plan was a gigantic cart wheel with several rims , a loose arrangement of radials and circular ring roads : a feature which Abercrombie stressed for London . |
| 14 | The trading community could suffer from the hazards which war created for shipping or through the destruction of possible export markets . |
| 15 | An injunction that his feast day is to be observed appears in the legal texts which Wulfstan drafted for him , and if the same clause in surviving copies of Æthelred 's laws is a later interpolation , as Patrick Wormald has contended , then Cnut 's interest in Edward , implied by his apparent gift of relics of this saint to Westminster Abbey , would be all the more striking . |
| 16 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 17 | On his return he gave Hocazade the Esediye medrese in Bursa with a salary of 10 akce a day , a post in which Hocazade remained for six years . |
| 18 | And so we must start off this morning with his , perhaps most famous of all interviews that Jesus had , the interview with Nicodemus there in John , er er chapter three part of which Elaine read for us earlier . |
| 19 | There were industries in which managers had for years sub-contracted certain management tasks to labour — for example the gang-work systems in steel , dockyards and shipbuilding — and similar practices operated in such industries as motorcar and aircraft production . |
| 20 | There was an outer compound , in which relatives waited for their turn to speak to prisoners through the bars of the main prison . |
| 21 | There followed a seven-year period in which he wrote nothing except ‘ two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for ’ . |
| 22 | What has to be described is the sort of thing which Europeans took for granted as they went about their daily lives . |
| 23 | The same was true of Street Scene , which Vidor directed for Goldwyn-United Artists in 1931 . |
| 24 | Despite the substantial fee which Mozart received for Così , he was still deeply in debt . |
| 25 | Grose was unable to prevent him erecting a pleasing but modest church in 1793 , which Johnson paid for in rum . |
| 26 | The knowledge which Mary made for her Son , Brigid breathed through her palms . |
| 27 | It is the work of the Spirit , then , to make us progressively reflect the character of Christ , himself the Last Man who demonstrates the image of God which God intended for us when he made us . |
| 28 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 29 | Charles looked on with an expression of distaste which Miles took for admiration . |
| 30 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |