Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] for [art] [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 | From Dutch historian Gustav Renier I derived the formulation that history is a social necessity : in face of government philistinism and the fantasies of cultural theory , this , I believe , is the bedrock upon which claims for a proper respect for historical study should be founded . |
| 5 | Working for Virgin was fun , in a way in which working for a large , anonymous corporation such as EMI or CBS could never be . |
| 6 | So erm I 've got a bit of time also in which to apply for a few things and go and see a few people erm |
| 7 | But movements in oil prices have knock-on effects on other fuels , particularly gas on which plans for a new generation of power stations is based . |
| 8 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 9 | 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 . |