Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the existing byelaws , complaints relating to non-reserved work which account for 80% of all the complaints that the Institute receives — can only be investigated against individuals . |
| 2 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 3 | The largest proportion of absences are proper nouns and foreign words which account for 78% of the missing tokens ( 75% of the types ) . |
| 4 | What we observe in Belfast may therefore be the reflex of a raising rule that was originally ‘ metropolitan ’ or ‘ mainstream ’ , together with some admixture of Scots raising rules which account for Scots [ glΕs , kΕrt ] ‘ glass , cart ’ , and which are now partly superseded in Scots by lowering and backing rules . |
| 5 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 6 | Allowed to buy only ‘ class B ’ shares , which account for 40% of stockmarket capitalisation , foreigners now own about 30% of the market . |
| 7 | The countries which qualify for assistance are those with a per capita GNP of less than US $ 791 ( valued at 1983 dollars ) . |
| 8 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 9 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 10 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 11 | Which goes for straights as well as gays . |
| 12 | Spurred by the competitive market , Intel is thought to be pitching the first P5 boxes at $6,000 : the company has reportedly priced the P5 at around $700 in 1,000 quantities versus the 80486DX which goes for $536 , according to Computer Reseller News . |
| 13 | What all ( bar for some reason ‘ Memorial ’ Vol. 1 ) have in common is the inclusion of takes from the now-famous November 26th 1945 quintet session which represents for jazz — and bebop in particular — something akin to what Woodstock would later be for another generation ( but without the audience participation ) . |
| 14 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 15 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |
| 16 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 17 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 18 | Even expensive and exotic breeds — such as the loose-skinned Japanese shar peis which sell for $1,000 — are often seen in shelters . |
| 19 | Prop kits , including polished spinners , cost $5,995 for all models except the Mooney 231/252 , which sell for $6,495 . |
| 20 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 21 | However , most of the cases which arose for decision were concerned with payments extracted ultra vires by persons who in virtue of their position could insist on the wrongful payment as a precondition to affording the payer his legal rights i.e. they were payments colore officii . |
| 22 | They were popular preachers and evangelists — Diego de Cadiz , a Capuchin revivalist preacher , attracted audiences which fought for scraps of his clothing . |
| 23 | However , there were additional ‘ differential shifts ’ , further differences in performance , which were most marked in Scotland and the North West , and which remain for discussion . |
| 24 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 25 | Katz also pushed up the bidding on a finely carved and drilled colossal marble bust of Lucius Verus ( lot 84 ) , attributed during the viewing to Carlo Albacini , which sold for £45,000 ( $72,000 , est. £8,000–10,000 ) . |
| 26 | Outstanding among these were Ana Maria Pacheco 's ‘ Head ’ ( lot 171 ) , a totemic carved and painted wooden head with real teeth which sold for £4,500 ( $6,750 ; est. £2,000–3,000 ) . |
| 27 | The property of a collection formed by Helmut and Margot Kraetz , whose German and Minimalist art had sold so well in New York in November , they attracted enthusiastic competition and fetched a total of $501,500 ( £278,600 ) , the most expensive lot being an untitled sheet ( lot 104 , est. $35–45,000 ) , executed in gouache and crayons in 1964 , which sold for $75,000 ( £41,700 ) . |
| 28 | The sale opened will with a miniature armour of good quality which sold for £2,000 , four times the top estimate . |
| 29 | The front runner was a 15in Syrian blue and white jar of about 1400 , which sold for £137,500 ( estimate £30,000-£40,000 ) — again to Dr David Khalili of the Khalili Galleries . |
| 30 | A West German car exported to the UK which sold for DM 36,000 in WG would still sell for £12,000 at the exchange rate £1 = DM3.00 . |