Example sentences of "which [vb past] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
2 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
3 | The published version of the draft constitution , which provided for the direct election of the president for an eight-year renewable term , and allowed the president to issue emergency decrees , did not include an amendment approved by the Assembly recommending that Saddam Hussein be elected President for life . |
4 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
5 | The free trade agreement between Canada and the USA ( signed in 1988 and implemented from Jan. 1 , 1989 ) , which provided for the eventual abolition of all customs duties between the USA and Canada after one , five and 10 years , continued to produce disputes between the two countries over specific items during 1990 . |
6 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
7 | Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] . |
8 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
9 | The deportees ' spokesman , Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi , said the UN statement was an attempt to bypass Security Council resolution 799 , which called for the immediate return of all the deportees . |
10 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
11 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
12 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
13 | 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 . ) |
14 | The immediate causes of anger could be divided into the following categories , which accounted for the vast majority of incidents reported : |
15 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |