Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 2 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was that which made her avid for the things that money could buy . |
| 4 | For some feminists the ‘ problem ’ was the masculine culture of mixed schools , which made them problematic for girls ( Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 6 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 7 | It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ . |
| 8 | The share system of land ownership did not meet the approval of the British , and legislation was passed which made it possible for any shareholder to force the division of a tract . |
| 9 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 10 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 11 | The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman . |
| 12 | He admired Jotan 's detachment , and concluded that it was the lack of direct involvement which made it possible for him to behave as if nothing had occurred which could be the source of concern . |
| 13 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 14 | For the first time she was grateful for Matilda 's notorious temper , which made it impossible for the Empress to keep her voice down . |
| 15 | Was there something about him which made it impossible for women to stay with him long ? |
| 16 | Under the quiet but firm leadership of Kenneth McDougall , ably seconded by Mark Frame , the BDDA was approaching the stage of development which made it fit for its task in the post-war world . |
| 17 | Using that famed double standard which made it acceptable for men to indulge in chance conquests , but which castigated women , Vitor would now associate her with casual sex and loose morals . |
| 18 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 19 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 20 | ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play . |
| 21 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 23 | The Spear & Jackson Neverbend range has an excellent hand trowel and fork ( about £5 ) , the 12in wooden handles of which make them suitable for many jobs . |
| 24 | There are no animal derived ingredients in any of the products which make them ideal for vegetarians and all formulations meet with BAUV standards . |
| 25 | However , increasingly sophisticated and powerful software tools are emerging which make it possible for non-programmers to program . |
| 26 | He says in his affirmation , with the support of letters from his doctor , that he and his wife suffer from heart conditions and other ailments which make it undesirable for them to occupy accommodation above the level of the ground floor . |
| 27 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 28 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 29 | The features which characterize UDC and which make it appropriate for the applications discussed above are : |
| 30 | for this reason , there must be query languages available which make it easy for untrained users to use the system . |