Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | They were too alike , they annoyed and inflamed each other now and then , which made for a tricky situation . |
| 3 | Green also anxiously records bouts of measles , his youngest son Thomas having fits as a baby , and Joshua being troubled with erysipelas , which made for a tiring journey for him back to Keswick . |
| 4 | On Aug. 2 Nakayama and his Lao counterpart , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , signed three economic aid agreements which provided for a Japanese aid package to Laos totalling 1,636,630,000 yen ( approximately US$11,000,000 ) . |
| 5 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |
| 6 | In a series of meetings in early 1990 the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh pressed for more rapid progress even than that envisaged by the Aden declaration of Nov. 30 , 1989 , which provided for a formal declaration of a unified Yemen Republic on Nov. 30 , 1990 . |
| 7 | A referendum on June 28 endorsed the draft constitution elaborated by the Constituent Assembly [ see pp. 38420 ; 38585 ] , which provided for a parliamentary system with a strong presidency . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , talks were also continuing in Vienna on the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which had been signed in November 1990 by 22 states from eastern Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) [ see pp. 37838 ; 38255 ; 38458 ] , and which provided for a multilateral reduction of troop deployment levels in Europe as well as a general reduction of conventional weapons stockpiles . |
| 9 | Miloš and Marasli negotiated a settlement which provided for a Serbian administration , based on a national council of the knezovi of each of the twelve nahijes , who in their own districts would work alongside a Turkish administrator ( müsellim ) . |
| 10 | The conflict was only resolved in late November when Spitaels and Deprez , leaders of the PS and PSC respectively , signed a declaration promising to ensure the financing of the measures decided , which provided for a monthly salary increase of BF2,000 from April 1991 and a further rise of 4 per cent from October 1992 . |
| 11 | A new constitution came into effect on Nov. 30 , 1990 , which provided for a multiparty system , direct elections and a free market economy , and dropped the designation People 's Republic , the country 's formal title becoming simply the Republic of Mozambique [ see pp. 37843-44 ] . |
| 12 | All were charged under the National Security Law which provided for a maximum penalty of death by hanging . |
| 13 | Balfour 's government introduced an Education Act which provided for an orderly scheme for elementary and secondary education in schools administered by Local Authorities . |
| 14 | The meeting was prompted by a draft secretarial order , issued by the US Interior Department in July , which provided for an expanded role for the new resident US representative in Belau [ see p. 37885 ] . |
| 15 | In 1978 a new constitution was promulgated which provided for an elaborate reversion to a tribal mode of rule involving an electoral college of eighty members chosen by forty local councils ( ‘ tinkhundla ’ ) , dominated by tribal elements . |
| 16 | At a meeting of the party 's national executive committee which prepared for a radical shake-up in Labour 's constitution , Mr Smith backed the sweeping away of union involvement in choosing the leader and MPs . |
| 17 | This led to the establishment of French language newspapers , edited by Frenchmen , which catered for a combined European and évolué readership . |
| 18 | Still others are active in campaigning or lobby groups such as the Philippine Drug Action Network ( PDAN ) which campaigned for a national drug policy and BUKAS which seeks to develop recommendations on public health policy . |
| 19 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 20 | A planner , Colin Buchanan , who during the 1950s had had somewhat of a chequered career as an inspector in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning ( Bruton , 1981 ) , argued that a new situation had arisen which called for a fresh approach . |
| 21 | The " decision " followed Bush 's initiative , unveiled at the UN General Assembly in September ( for Bush and Shevardnadze speeches see pp. 36906-07 ) and which was at variance with the existing chemical weapons treaty draft , which called for an immediate halt to production . |
| 22 | Following the deployment , the Lebanese government made it clear that its next step would be to place diplomatic pressure on the United States to persuade Israel to allow Lebanese army deployment in Jezzin , as a first step towards compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 425 , which called for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon . |
| 23 | Far from being ‘ immoral ’ or promiscuous , there is plentiful evidence that in fact the working class , partly inheriting structures from their rural predecessors , had a very clear set of ethics of their own which survived for a considerable time . |
| 24 | The issue of the transformation to political pluralism was regarded as the main obstacle to progress in the peace talks between the government and the Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo or MNR ) , which resumed for a second round in Rome on Aug. 14 . |
| 25 | Kim was the unanimous choice of the ninth Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA — the country 's legislature ) which convened for a two-day session , its first since its election in April [ see p. 37375 ] . |
| 26 | On the Von Neumann computer the only conditional jump instruction was one which tested for a non-negative value in the accumulator . |