Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
2 | This year the prize table was especially attractive and the wide variety of ‘ white elephants ’ presented quite a problem of which to choose for the higher scoring competitors . |
3 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
4 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
5 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |