Example sentences of "which [vb past] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system chosen was a form which asked for the name of the pupil , their form , and the author and title of the book borrowed . |
| 2 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’ |
| 4 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 5 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 6 | An excess of confusion and costs would attend a system which provided for the affairs of the street to be regulated by its inhabitants , and likewise those of the hamlet , parish , market town , county and region . |
| 7 | Within a year of partition , the Constabulary Act ( NI ) 1922 was passed , which provided for the formation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) . |
| 8 | Admittedly , the Brugnoni case is concerned with article 2(1) of the First Directive , which provided for the grant of general authorisations in respect of the capital movements set out in list B of Annex I , and Directive ( 85/566/E.E.C. ) repealed that article and merged list B with list A referred to in article 1(1) , under which member states are to grant all foreign exchange authorisations required . |
| 9 | In February 1959 a treaty was made between the United Kingdom and the United Arab Republic which provided for the return of sequestrated property , except property sold between October 1956 and August 1958 . |
| 10 | On April 28 the two ministers signed an agreement which provided for the repatriation of an estimated 200,000 Rohingya Moslems who had crossed into Bangladesh from Myanma 's Arakan province . |
| 11 | On Feb. 4 the Knesset approved legislation which provided for the holding of a general election on June 23 . |
| 12 | The US Supreme Court on Dec. 12 struck down a New York state law which provided for the seizure of profits made by convicted criminals from publicizing their crimes . |
| 13 | In March King Bhumibol approved an interim Constitution which provided for the appointment of a 292-member National Legislative Assembly to draw up a permanent constitution and prepare for a general election . |
| 14 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 15 | The agreement , which provided for the establishment of co-operation mechanisms for the maintenance of peace , was signed in Thailand by Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , the Thai Army C.-in-C. and a Vice-Chair of the ruling National Peace-Keeping Assembly , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 16 | These disagreements themselves make it clear that there can have been no dramatic recovery which compensated for the losses from the fourteenth-century plagues ; any such marked increase would have left no scope for argument . |
| 17 | A system of operational efficiency comparison was also evolved by the mid-1950s , which allowed for the development of rivalry and emulation between power stations and contributed to the development of cost-consciousness . |
| 18 | Since early July the Medellín judges had received more than 200 requests for releases , as lawyers sought to take advantage of a new Penal Code which allowed for the release of anyone who had been detained without trial for 180 days . |
| 19 | The new postwar constitutions of France and Italy ( and later that of the new Federal Republic of Germany ) included clauses which allowed for the possibility of the abrogation of national sovereignty in favour of supranational authorities . |
| 20 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 21 | On Nov. 1 Taiwan 's Executive Yuan or Cabinet approved a draft statute on relations with the Chinese mainland , which allowed for the legalization of civilian contacts between the two sides . |
| 22 | The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped . |
| 23 | The bid was expected this week or next , with finance arranged through Manufacturers Hanover and Charterhouse , which acted for the brothers in the past . |
| 24 | In no way did we want a union type association , it was all to be kept low key and friendly , which suited both ourselves and our administration , for we already had an official union which catered for the needs of the Customs and Excise in general . |
| 25 | This sense of Christian unity in the faith enacted in liturgical structures which catered for the needs of lay individuals seeking to understand their faith was lost after the Reformation , when increasing stress was put on individual communion and a personal relationship with God . |
| 26 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 27 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |
| 28 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 29 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 30 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |