Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler .
2 A quarter of the vote in the North went to the Lombard League , which has called for the establishment of an independent north Italian state unless Rome puts its house in order .
3 It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness .
4 The US resolution was not supported by the PLO which had pressed for the dispatch of a mission reporting directly to the Security Council ( i.e. not to the UN Secretary-General ) .
5 The problems which had arisen for the Government were the rising prison population , and the cost of imprisonment .
6 I recognise that it is , equally , a disappointment for the other yards which had tendered for the work , and for the people in those areas .
7 The new renown of Walter Machin and the heady publicity which had resulted for the town in which he lived had suggested to the Arts Club committee ( a mixture of the local genteel and the local far left ) that a retrospective of the work of his stepson might neatly capitalize on the widespread interest .
8 Even more important , the emperor 's participation , which had accounted for the selection of many eleventh-century popes ( and anti-popes ) had been totally rejected by 1179 .
9 ( 1 ) The Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Bill would give blacks equal property rights , and would repeal the Group Areas Act of 1966 , the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 restricting black farming to 13 per cent of the country , and the Black Communities Development Act , which had provided for the establishment of black townships .
10 Trading links have survived right-wing military coups in Argentina ( 1976 ) , Brazil ( 1964 ) , Uruguay ( 1973 ) and Bolivia ( 1971 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 ) , countries which have accounted for the bulk of Soviet trade with Latin America over the past two decades .
11 What has changed for the stockman is more often connected with the intensification of livestock production .
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