Example sentences of "which was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 2 | The face was hardest to tan , and this model , which was for professionals and cost £5,912 plus VAT , featured three facial tanning units , one to tan the front of the face and two others to tan the sides . |
| 3 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 4 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 5 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 6 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 8 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 9 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 10 | During the subsequent week , she had ridden three winners , only one of which was for Bill Templeman . |
| 11 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 12 | She lost the argument , which was about her reservation , which was for berth No. 7 in English which the conductor obstinately read as 1 in French . |
| 13 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 14 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 15 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 16 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 17 | When I , when I came here I saw a shop in which was for sale . |
| 18 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 19 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 20 | The first Plan for Lothian based its casualty reduction targets on the latest available data which was for 1990 . |
| 21 | They could match their lending more closely with their borrowing , much of which was for specified periods of time . |
| 22 | Then Toby trudged towards the boarders ’ annexe which was for the moment his home . |
| 23 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 24 | The proposal , which was for a referendum on the dissolution of the Byelarus Supreme Soviet , was denounced in a statement by the Council of Ministers on March 4 as an attempt to increase " social tension and confrontation " by blaming the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers for the recent drop in living standards . |
| 25 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 26 | Innocent was consecrated pope on the feast of St Peter 's Chair or Throne ( 22 February ) , which was for him deeply symbolic . |
| 27 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 28 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 29 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |
| 30 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |