Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [was/were] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.

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1 The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun .
2 He made his call at a meeting of high-level civil servants , police and military officers on Nov. 2 , three days before a House of Representatives debate on prostitution at which demands were made for the closure of all brothels nationwide .
3 The Co-prosperity Sphere became an area whose resources were exploited for the benefit of Japan .
4 The station for the new age was Victor Laloux 's Gare d'Orsay in Paris , whose opening was timed for the 1900 Paris Exposition .
5 He lived quietly in half his old house , he sometimes went to visit friends in other parts of the country , and occasionally to London , where he stayed in the Dorchester Hotel and was asked to luncheon by Churchill , whose venom was reserved for the index of his book .
6 For example , a historian will be interested in finding out what is written on a sheet of medieval vellum , whereas an archaeologist will want to know what animal skin was used , how the vellum was made , and what pigments were used for the ink .
7 What preparations were made for the lesson .
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