Example sentences of "which [verb] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules .
2 It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals .
3 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 . )
4 When a new hotel opens what are the effects on existing hotels which compete for the same customers ?
5 Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ?
6 I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house .
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