Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
2 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
3 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
4 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
5 | Instead , he proposed a package which provided for the highest degree of democratization permitted under the Basic Law , the colony 's Constitution which had been approved by China in 1990 . |
6 | The published version of the draft constitution , which provided for the direct election of the president for an eight-year renewable term , and allowed the president to issue emergency decrees , did not include an amendment approved by the Assembly recommending that Saddam Hussein be elected President for life . |
7 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
8 | The free trade agreement between Canada and the USA ( signed in 1988 and implemented from Jan. 1 , 1989 ) , which provided for the eventual abolition of all customs duties between the USA and Canada after one , five and 10 years , continued to produce disputes between the two countries over specific items during 1990 . |
9 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
10 | Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] . |
11 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
12 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
13 | The deportees ' spokesman , Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi , said the UN statement was an attempt to bypass Security Council resolution 799 , which called for the immediate return of all the deportees . |
14 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
15 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
16 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
17 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
18 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
19 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
20 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
21 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
22 | Figure 2 shows the undulator for this new facility , which lasted for the first time in January 1992 . |
23 | So I will claim this to be the lowest speed of any commercial prerecorded ‘ two-minute ’ cylinder , which ran for the best part of four minutes now . |
24 | The immediate causes of anger could be divided into the following categories , which accounted for the vast majority of incidents reported : |
25 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
26 | This is what accounted for the enormous popularity of Julius Chongo 's Pocheza M'madzulo , especially in Lusaka and in Eastern province . |