Example sentences of "for [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the very ability for which we are trying to account . |
| 2 | It is a desire millions of us know and share , yet for which we have no name . |
| 3 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 4 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 5 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 6 | Oh sure , it can be a tonic , and it 's useful as glucose if you just want to kick things over , but , come the advent of a newer and more just social order , the one for which we all cry out , there would be no place for the scandal and achievement of pop , for Prince and any foul Beasties . |
| 7 | We usually gained our ends by astute and almost instinctive creation of alliances , for which we provided leadership , and small but professional military forces that were sought by friends and feared by foes for the impact they could make upon contemporary balances of power . |
| 8 | Dolphins are probably as diverse now in terms of numbers of species , as at any time for which we have a good fossil record . |
| 9 | It was the sort of omen , one of the signatures of destiny , for which we were always watching . |
| 10 | If history is potentially unreliable and incomplete , what of the prehistoric period for which we have no written records at all ? |
| 11 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 12 | But Ann Veronica 's slow awakening , albeit eighty years ago , is not so unfamiliar to us now , when there is a sense that our own desire , our own pleasure , is something for which we have to struggle . |
| 13 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 14 | We will complete the new British Library building for which we have provided £450 million . |
| 15 | He defined the need for special forces in the area : first as troops for post-occupational duties in captured territories ; second , as ‘ small raiding parties of the thug variety , for which we have L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade and the Special Boat Section ’ ; and finally as raiding parties on a larger scale which was the original purpose in retaining the old Middle East Commando . |
| 16 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 17 | We may find unifying principles in patterns of gene activity , gradients , signals , modes of movement , but there is still much variety for which we have no explanation whatsoever . |
| 18 | I had written a particularly tear-jerking script for 1OAB 's ‘ last hour ’ for which we might well have played ‘ Hearts and Flowers ’ as an obbligato . |
| 19 | Her attitude to us is very frank , for which we are glad . |
| 20 | Again , there are those who would quarrel with this view but let me tell you that we all have a mentor , an inner teacher , a guardian angel , a being of light who protects us and is totally dedicated to the task of leading us to the point of self-realization , to bring about the harmony and peace for which we pray . |
| 21 | The buses to Goldington Hall were very good indeed for which we were so thankful as our clothing was getting thin . |
| 22 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 23 | Certally , she would make an authoritive statement on behalf of the gummunt , though it would not be in monosybils , for which we should all be grayful . |
| 24 | The splitters reply that only fine-grained analysis can identify the precise patterns of actions on which we base our subjective impressions , and perhaps uncover other coherent patterns for which we have no names . |
| 25 | Basta , che sol tu chieda ’ has all the solemnity for which we most admire the great bass arias from Messiah . |
| 26 | We did not have bug problems , for which we were all thankful . ) |
| 27 | A given text may demand a kind of reading for which we are not yet prepared . |
| 28 | We need land at our doorstep … if Russia does not want to give it to us , she will force us to undertake an expropriation proceeding , i.e. a war , for which we have long stored up the reasons … |
| 29 | This is opposed to simply ‘ stifling our emotions ’ until we can stifle no more and we blow our filter out and say things for which we are sorry . |
| 30 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |