Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 2 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 3 | Underneath the black hair , the man 's fleshy lips curled into a grimace which passed for a smile . |
| 4 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 5 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 6 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 7 | On Sept. 27 parliament finally approved an amended budget which provided for a budget deficit of 26,000,000 million zloty , compared with the 24,300,000 million zloty provisionally agreed with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in August . |
| 8 | A new Constitution was introduced in 1982 which provided for a Governor , an Executive Council and a House of Assembly with seven elected , two ex-officio and two appointed members . |
| 9 | The outcome of their efforts was the treaty of Leake in August 1318 which provided for a meeting of Lancaster and the king . |
| 10 | Most life assurance companies marketed a retirement contract which provided for a death benefit of the return of premiums , or a return with around 5 per cent interest , and since most policyholders had alternative provision for death benefit , a significant number of policies were set up providing just a return of premiums on death . |
| 11 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 12 | On May 6 the Commission presented a 1993 draft budget which provided for an increase in the full " appropriations " budget from ECU66,600 million in 1992 to ECU67,300 million . |
| 13 | It got incredibly painful , and in bed at night I could hear a munching sound , definitely coming from me , which stopped for a bit if I touched the swelling . |
| 14 | In 1508–9 , 20 per cent of the value of Newcastle 's trade was already in coal , and in the following decade there was a boom in coal exports which compensated for a slump in those of wool . |
| 15 | The main advantage of the integrated database is , of course , that payroll and personnel information is always " in step " which allows for a consistency not achieved in the past . |
| 16 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 17 | Although Goldmann does introduce a measure of reflexivity not present in Marx , Engels and Lukács , it is as a characteristic of the sociology of knowledge which allows for a variety of competing perspectives . |
| 18 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
| 19 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 20 | A charity which paid for a group of Russian orphans to have a holiday in England has brought them back again . |
| 21 | In last year 's Brain Game , 36 teams competed and raised £70,000 which paid for a team of six nurses at one of the Marie Curie Cancer Cure centres for 12 months . |
| 22 | A good headhunter potentially has significant awareness of how other companies have solved this problem , and knowledge about the market place in which to look for an individual . |
| 23 | Last year Norway killed 95 minke whales as part of a scientific research programme which calls for a total of 400 whales to be killed in the period 1992-94 . |
| 24 | Among new political organizations established in 1989 was the Unity organization , which campaigned for a return to pre-Gorbachev communism . |
| 25 | The development of self-study materials which cater for a range of expertise is an important contribution central government could make . |
| 26 | Besides the Women 's Institute , there are over a dozen other active groups in the village , which cater for a variety of ages and interests . |
| 27 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 28 | As we saw , there are broadly two schools of Marxist thought — those which rely on an instrumental view of the state-economy relationship and those of a structuralist type , which allow for a degree of freedom for the state and discuss power in terms of hegemony and control . |
| 29 | By sharp and crucial contrast , the metals trade , which accounts for a fraction of the AFBD 's membership and income , is directly represented by at least three members — the triumphant Mr Gaunt , Phillip Robinson from Metallgesellschaft , and Francis Holford from Rudolf Wolff . |
| 30 | The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home , which accounts for a quarter of the emissions of carbon dioxide . |