Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 2 | Renner ( 1949 ) argued with some plausible empirical evidence that legal norms which appear to persist for lengthy historical periods , spanning different modes of production , in fact change their substantive functions in response to developments in economic structures . |
| 3 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 4 | When the great house becomes the possession of a nation , it can more easily be accepted as ‘ a noble picture ’ , ‘ a history in stone ’ , preserving in art , if not in life , that radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it , that remembered notion of human community which has gone for good . |
| 5 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 6 | The transmitter substances which we described in chapters 4 and 6 provided a valuable basis from which to start searching for new drugs . |
| 7 | DB2 Version 3 will support the DRDA extension for the two-phase commit protocol , which manages commit for multiple relational database systems in a single unit of work , enabling IMS/ESA Transaction Manager , IMS batch and CICS applications to update remote databases . |
| 8 | The report represents a victory for the Confederation of British Industry and a lobby led by Emma Nicholson , Tory MP for Devon West and Torridge , which had campaigned for tough new laws . |
| 9 | The policy change , which the 600-member council endorsed , was nonetheless a victory for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a broad alliance which had campaigned for urgent constitutional changes on the grounds that the referendum was unnecessary . |
| 10 | And excessive centralisation had often been the fault of the republics and regions themselves , which had competed for major investments by offering to reduce spending on social requirements . |
| 11 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |