Example sentences of "[noun] for which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what is peculiar to the doctor is that the successful action , the save , is seen to be brought about through the use of the esoteric skills for which he trained and which , by and large , remain untested and unused . |
| 2 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 3 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 4 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 5 | So he obtained the job , unfortunately at the cost of giving himself a hernia for which he needed hospital treatment . |
| 6 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 7 | American fast food family contrasting with a British gastronomic club in a strange black comedy , a genre for which he has a growing reputation . |
| 8 | Since then he has dedicated his life to his practice in Calcutta where he now only sees the most difficult cases , particularly those with organic pathology for which he finds the 50 millesimal potencies especially appropriate . |
| 9 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 10 | I agree with all that he said — the same problems exist in my constituency and I am sure that many hon. Members will join me in supporting the action for which he has called . |
| 11 | Even in his adopted country Jones failed to receive the command for which he had hoped , but , returning to Europe , did succeed in becoming Kontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones , in the Russian navy . |
| 12 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 13 | In 1981 Surridge became a genial and hearty president of the club for which he had taken 464 wickets ( 29.64 ) and 360 catches ( 58 in 1952 and 56 in 1955 ) and scored 3697 runs ( 13.02 ) . |
| 14 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 15 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 16 | Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment . |
| 17 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 18 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 19 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |
| 20 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 21 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 22 | E7.93 The European Environmental Bureau : To note that the Director was nominated as the UK EEB members ' representative to an EEB conference on coastal protection development held in Denmark on 1st & 2nd May for which he received European Commission funding . |
| 23 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 24 | If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child . |
| 25 | Using this as his measure of , Lucas can carry out a separate regression of on and for each of the countries for which he has data , once he has solved the problem of how to measure for each country . |
| 26 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 27 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 28 | Refusing leave to appeal to the House of Lords , Lord Justice Bingham said the sums claimed by Lloyd 's represented money out of which Mr Cameron-Webb had tried to cheat syndicates for which he acted . |
| 29 | In the cafe she found Fosdyke nursing a malt whisky ( 'Kept for me specially by Carlo because I was once able to do him a favour' ) and the children occupied with a Space Invader machine for which he had advanced them hundred lire pieces . |
| 30 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |