Example sentences of "[Wh det] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 2 | Evidently moves which for one person seem plausible are simply not moves which others can make . |
| 3 | If two groups acquiesce in the representation of their perspective through the same array of objects , which for one group is acceptable because it is bright and cheerful , while for the other is acceptable because it enshrines a sense of good design , each may project its own perspective onto the other ; in this case , the object permits the coexistence of two perspectives , rather than the dominance of either . |
| 4 | However , they may still be needed for information which for one reason or another is not made available by subject access . |
| 5 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 6 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 7 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 8 | Instead of regarding all confrontation situations as zero-sum games ( in which for one side to win the other must lose ) we could attempt to extract gains for both sides . |
| 9 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 10 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 11 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 12 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 13 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 14 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 15 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 16 | This is not to underestimate the Club 's previous social calendar which for many years included successful dinner dances and club socials . |
| 17 | Next door , at eleven o'clock , stood a fine Edwardian house which for many years was called Quetta . |
| 18 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 19 | This will result in limited choice for the consumer and a lack of innovation ( eg British Telecom phone equipment , which for many years was severely limited whilst it was part of the public sector ) . |
| 20 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
| 21 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
| 22 | A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment . |
| 23 | My advice extended to a number of important legal technicalities and in particular to the operation of any necessary changes in the prevailing system of rent control — which for many years served to support social stability in this country to an extent rarely recognised . |
| 24 | These proposals are , however , made much more complex by the existence of old long-stay wards in hospitals whose main function , quite clearly , is social care , yet which for many years are going to be run by the Health Service . |
| 25 | His 500-page Modern Gas Producers , which for many years was the standard work on the gasification of solid fuels in a fixed bed with a mixed blast of air and steam , was published in 1923 . |
| 26 | Ostensibly objective textual scholarship adopted editorial policies which for many years worked to ensure the above assumptions could be confirmed . |
| 27 | Separate Audit and Remuneration Committees under the Chairmanship of have been constituted to formally replace the Committee of Non-Executive Directors which for many years has provided the Executive Chairman with independent advice on matters concerning the appointment and remuneration of Executive Directors and senior executives and on audit . |
| 28 | Exactly the same model as the Sir Samuel Kelly lifeboat , which for many years served Donaghadee , and which is now on display in the town , the 38-year-old Isles of Scilly lifeboat had an illustrious record of saving lives before her retirement in 1981 . |
| 29 | He introduced his team , designer Chloe Obolensky ; Marius Constant , who , in distilling Debussy 's score , had realised the two-piano version with which for many years Debussy had entertained his friends ; representatives of Brook 's three casts , and three of four pianists . |
| 30 | TWO residential homes which for many years have cared for young people and the elderly are being closed by the Salvation Army . |