Example sentences of "which [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence is provided by a number of low scarps which wind for considerable distances across the Mercurian surface . |
| 2 | Older people are more expensive for the state to care for — not only are they eligible for state pensions , which account for 13 per cent of public expenditure in Britain and 22 per cent of the federal budget in the United States , they are also the most costly group for public health services since they are likely to require expensive operations and long stays in hospital . |
| 3 | Scott Cairns , promoted from within to fill the role vacated by Mr Milne , aims to lift Scottish investment from 63 p.c. to 70 p.c. , and increase the retail content at the expense of offices , which account for 55 p.c . |
| 4 | Doctors will be able to use the kit for regular screening for lung and gastric cancers , which account for 70 per cent of cancers treated in the western world . |
| 5 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 6 | The new parent wants to concentrate on rail traction vehicles for railways , industry and mining , which account for 90 per cent of LEW 's sales . |
| 7 | But Carl Prean may not be accommodated on one issue , the exclusion of German Bundesliga results , which account for most of his successes . |
| 8 | In addition there are rehearsals , which account for most of the time spent on music . |
| 9 | Conversely , musculo-skeletal problems , which account for few deaths of those aged 65 + , are a major cause of disability in the community . |
| 10 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 11 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 12 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 13 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 14 | It is small , burgeoning firms which account for true economic growth . |
| 15 | Direct elections for the two houses , which sit for simultaneous four-year terms , took place in two rounds on June 4 and 18 . |
| 16 | But here and throughout there is an illuminating clarity of texture , purity of sound and impeccable intonation which make for satisfying listening . |
| 17 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 18 | I find it important that the ‘ ceiling ’ of the cave should be reasonably low and the entrance small , for which reason I usually use broken pots which make for smaller caves . |
| 19 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 20 | And yet surprisingly little is known about the factors which make for public acceptance . |
| 21 | Some have wide spools which make for longer casting . |
| 22 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 23 | According to the Limited Partnerships ( Unrestricted Size ) No 1 Regulations 1971 , which provide for limited partnerships in surveying and allied professions beyond the usual maximum of twenty members , not more than one quarter of the total number of partners can be limited partners . |
| 24 | stage 1 modules which provide for basic competences |
| 25 | pay policies which provide for just rewards ( individual or team bonuses ) for outstanding effort , achievements and innovation ; |
| 26 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 27 | Part II — Orders in family proceedings This introduces four new orders known collectively as s8 orders which provide for different aspects of a child 's care and upbringing . |
| 28 | By tradition , we are tucked away in remote corners of the newspaper buildings so that sensitives and high-minded types are spared the expected loutish behaviour and visceral exchanges which pass for banter . |
| 29 | In addition Gary Nesbitt , who was the non-executive deputy chairman , and Michael Isaacs , who was the development director , have agreed to a non-competition agreement , which last for two years in Mr Nesbitt 's case and 18 months in Mr Isaacs ' . |
| 30 | By choosing those which last for many months as the basis and adding others which emerge , flower and then fade away , you can create stability while still incorporating change . |