Example sentences of "[noun sg] which for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |
| 2 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
| 3 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 4 | ‘ Subject to section 4 below , no person shall in the United Kingdom accept a deposit in the course of carrying on ( whether there or elsewhere ) a business which for the purposes of this Act is a deposit-taking business unless that person is an institution for the time being authorised by the Bank under the following provisions of this Part of this Act . |
| 5 | Gloucester were very fortunate in getting a late penalty kick and in fact the very last kick of the game saw Tim Smith come up to get one point which for the last 35 minutes looked the most improbable result of all . |
| 6 | Convocation was rarely concerned now with reform ; Archbishop Stratford in 1342 was the last primate until the sixteenth century to issue provincial constitutions in this body which for the rest of the reign was wholly concerned with royal taxation or with eliciting , in exchange for grants , relief from crown or lay encroachments on church liberties or property . |
| 7 | The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars . |
| 8 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 9 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 10 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
| 11 | So it is that close attention to the language itself and reference to systemic knowledge allows us to negotiate meaning and acquire the kind of information which for the reader in the schematic know is provided in advance . |
| 12 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 13 | Within the Tower 's walls stood its keep , the imposing White Tower which for the two hundred and fifty years since the reign of Henry the Third had been regularly whitewashed . |
| 14 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 15 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 16 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards Metzinger published an article in the literary review Pan on the work of Picasso , Braque , Le Fauconnier and Delaunay in which he proclaimed a new type of painting which for the first time broke with hellenic traditions . |
| 18 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 19 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 20 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |