Example sentences of "[Wh det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship . |
| 2 | Many brewers , of course , built fine half-timbered Tudor pubs , a style which neatly conveyed the message of ‘ Merrie England ’ and which for customers in the suburbs could represent a kind of home from home . |
| 3 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 4 | Raskolnikov is self-divided and also separated from the human family in a way which for Dostoevsky is both social and religious . |
| 5 | Such criticism Thurley argued , very convincingly , never bridges the gap between description and interpretation , which for Thurley involves evaluation . |
| 6 | Now a perfectly good internal sprinkler system has been developed which for £500,000 could be fitted to an aircraft and would put fires out within 10 seconds . |
| 7 | One resort seizing the bull by the horns is little old Adelboden , which for 1991 is building a big new gondola to link two of its smaller ski areas to its major one . |
| 8 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 9 | Which for me , an old trouper , is fraudulent . ’ |
| 10 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 11 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 12 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 13 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |
| 14 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 15 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 16 | The people of Great Britain were governed , however tortuous and artificial the modalities , upon the authority of an elective institution which for historical and other reasons they were content to regard as representing them . |
| 17 | Second , in his writing he tends to present actual homosexuals ( e.g. Loerke in Women in Love ) as decadent others who draw off that which for Lawrence complicates the ideal homoerotic brotherhood . |
| 18 | This link between subjectivity and subjection , which for the ( political ) post/modernist has to be disclosed before it can be disarticulated , is , by comparison , both assumed and manifestly endorsed in the Renaissance . |
| 19 | The second half of the book shows that this is also so for the State , a concept which for many , especially Hegel , was no less holy and fundamental than the family . |
| 20 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 21 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 22 | Many more are expected to cross today , which for most is not a working day . |
| 23 | THE Stock Exchange is investigating two blatant share ramps which for a while yesterday added £178million to the value of conglomerate Williams Holdings , and knocked £94million from financial services group British & Commonwealth . |
| 24 | It is smaller than Sardinia ( just 22 acres , or roughly 13 football pitches , against Sardinia 's 16,000 square miles , or six million pitches ) which for purposes of containment ought to be counted pure gain . |
| 25 | The reason for the payments was ‘ not the fecklessness , gullibility or incompetence of the small investor , but the fecklessness , gullibility and incompetence of the Government , which for months and for years ignored all warnings ’ . |
| 26 | He said it was not the small investor but the ‘ fecklessness , gullibility , and incompetence of the Government , which for months and for years , ignored all the warnings . |
| 27 | Italian Escapades ( 01-748 2661 ) , with Pilgrim Air have a design-your-own-holiday programme which for £204 charter flight ( or £264 scheduled service ) allows you 5 nights in Rome at a 4-star hotel near the Trevi and Spanish Steps . |
| 28 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
| 29 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 30 | The extension of body , which for Descartes is its whole essence , is not for Locke the only consequence of what he sees as its essential property of solidity . |