Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 2 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 3 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 4 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |
| 5 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
| 6 | As Oliver ( 1986 ) has recently pointed out , the word was originally used in respect of those who cared for dependent adult relatives , mostly elderly people : |
| 7 | In his early days with us Hamilton was one of those attacking centre-halves who made for great excitement , supporting his forwards and ever-ready to have a go at goal . |
| 8 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 9 | This will represent a saving of £10 for those members who opted for this extension in the past . |
| 10 | From the nineteenth-century reformers who pressed for universal schooling to today 's schemes for increasing the numbers of girls studying science , education has been the site of the struggle for equality of opportunity . |
| 11 | The Ayrshire Cattle Society was founded in 1877 and its first herdbook published the following year , but there continued to be conflict between those who bred for show and those who bred for commercial production . |
| 12 | The problem we have to grapple with in trying to understand the significance of the events is the contradiction between the ostensibly humanitarian instincts of those who campaigned for legal change , and the controlling impact they had on people 's lives , particularly working-class girls and homosexuals . |
| 13 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 14 | He 'd rapped on the open door as he 'd passed it , and said , ‘ Who called for International Rescue ? ’ |
| 15 | Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change . |
| 16 | It was the Social Democratic and Labour Party leader , John Hume , who called for maximum attendance by English , Scottish and Welsh MPs at the recent special Commons debate on Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | The conference agreed that Russia was the principal source of Arctic pollution , an accusation largely accepted by Russian Environment Minister Viktor Danilian , who called for foreign assistance with pollution abatement and modernization of key industries , notably nickel , copper and cobalt processing in northern Siberia and on the Kola Peninsula . |
| 18 | But the inspectors have exonerated three chartered accountants who worked for Blue Arrow , although some of their actions were also criticised . |
| 19 | She it was who interpreted for various French , German and Italian journalists as John Regis , our sole sprint medallist with a bronze in the 200 metres , told everybody that for one flickering moment he ( and many others ) had thought he had won gold . |
| 20 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 21 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 22 | The chief immediate control on women 's actions and opinions was other women ; and girls who wished for one reason or another to do unusual things needed the tolerance , perhaps even the support of their mothers and their mothers ' friends . |
| 23 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 24 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 25 | The dead king was identified with Osiris , but each individual who hoped for eternal resurrection was henceforth identified with Osiris and might place the title " the Osiris " in front of his or her name in funerary inscriptions . |
| 26 | The only caller who stayed for any length of time said nothing at all . |
| 27 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |