Example sentences of "which [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which goes for straights as well as gays . |
| 2 | Spurred by the competitive market , Intel is thought to be pitching the first P5 boxes at $6,000 : the company has reportedly priced the P5 at around $700 in 1,000 quantities versus the 80486DX which goes for $536 , according to Computer Reseller News . |
| 3 | What all ( bar for some reason ‘ Memorial ’ Vol. 1 ) have in common is the inclusion of takes from the now-famous November 26th 1945 quintet session which represents for jazz — and bebop in particular — something akin to what Woodstock would later be for another generation ( but without the audience participation ) . |
| 4 | " Pacific Water " , on the other hand , is a dynamic , upward-spiralling form which represents for the artist " the sparkling , clear visual quality of Pacific water ( OED definition " tending to Peace " ) — water in its purest form " . |
| 5 | In such a slice , appropriate stimulation of the input pathways will also lead to LTP which persists for as long as the slice can be maintained alive . |
| 6 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for five years and consists of six appointed Senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 7 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 8 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 9 | Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance . |
| 10 | This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past . |
| 11 | However , the machine has a basic memory of only 128K , a not-very-standard keyboard and screen , no disk drive , and an operating system called DOS , which stands for DIP Operating System , after the machine 's British designers . |
| 12 | Prosamo ( which stands for planned release of selected and modified organisms ) is sponsoring a wide range of studies on the behaviour of genetically engineered organisms in the environment . |
| 13 | Storage is concerned with space and , conveniently as so often happens , requirements can be summed up in an acronym this time SPACES which stands for — |
| 14 | The function of LOEX ( which stands for Library Orientation and Instruction Exchange ) is as follows : |
| 15 | CMOS devices are also re-programmable using electrically erasable circuitry , and can pack more circuitry on board than bipolar chips — hence the ‘ CE ’ in the name which stands for CMOS-Erasable . |
| 16 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 17 | To help you keep in mind the five main techniques we have invented a mnemonic , MACRO , which stands for Memory , Aims , Concentration , Review and Organisation . |
| 18 | If a negated conjunct is really necessary in some condition , then the standard trick is to introduce a new predicate which stands for it . |
| 19 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 20 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |
| 21 | The sign & which stands for and . |
| 22 | CPIM , which stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management is an association of industry professionals who have achieved a CPIM diploma . |
| 23 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 24 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 25 | The idea is called LETS , which stands for Local Exchange and Trading Systems , and apparently there is a group of about 30 people in Belfast already working the idea . |
| 26 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 27 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 28 | Ours is a Republic which cares for its citizens , and will support them against a common enemy . |
| 29 | Robert Francis QC , for the Airedale National Health Trust which cares for Tony , told the court yesterday he objected to the term starving to death . |
| 30 | A HOSPICE which cares for the terminally ill is holding a special fund-raising week . |