Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
| 2 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 3 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 4 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 5 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 6 | Procedures can only be used effectively and efficiently in the context of a team structure which has accounted for the systematic management of top priorities and emergencies . |
| 7 | The final selection of which approach to take for the practical application of apply linguistic information is dependent on a number of factors . |
| 8 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 9 | First , Parliament gave statutory recognition and reinforcement to the existing regime of contractual receivers appointed by debenture holders which had operated for the public benefit . |
| 10 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 11 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 12 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 13 | The point , however , is not to lament over the once great dace swims which have changed for the worse , but to think in the opposite way — that some of the swims you tried three or four seasons ago without any success may now have turned into ones where dace congregate . |
| 14 | A week later the Senate created the Landesarbeitsamt — a kind of labour exchange , but one which refused to cater for the Polish unemployed of Danzig . |