Example sentences of "for which the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcuin regarded the dynastic purges of Offa 's reign as an unmitigated evil , for which the premature death of Ecgfrith represented divine retribution . |
| 2 | What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life . |
| 3 | Lithuania and Russia would also begin work on a treaty on the withdrawal of troops , for which the current agreement would be a basis , and the two sides would also discuss transferring military equipment to Lithuania . |
| 4 | The international legal identity of the inhabitants of a mandate territory was also raised in Namibia , where the International Court of Justice recognised that ‘ the injured entity is a people which must look to the international community for assistance in its progress towards the goals for which the sacred trust was instituted . ’ |
| 5 | Another difficulty arising from having to use conditions rather than legal agreements concerns the length of time for which the reserved areas can be safeguarded . |
| 6 | The first consists of the Proconsulidae at node 0 and includes Proconsul , for which the best evidence is available . |
| 7 | Work continues apace at Southern Air on the restoration of the first aircraft , for which the civil registration G-OMIG has been reserved . |
| 8 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 9 | This is because at any level there are competing interpretations of the data that can not be disambiguated , for which the appropriate information is available at some other level . |
| 10 | However , this approach has severe limitations , since at any level there are alternative interpretations ( i.e. ambiguity ) within the data for which the appropriate information is instantly available at some other level . |
| 11 | The only group for which the estimated SMR was raised was that of patients aged under 20 years at diagnosis in which only one death occurred ( SMR=191 , 95% CI 5 to 1060 , χ 2 2 1 = 0.44 NS ) ( Table I ) . |
| 12 | The first Congress for which the new leadership was responsible was held in Torquay in 1983 . |
| 13 | On the grandiose plane of a general strike or revolution against a Labour government it was sheer nonsense , though much more dangerous in Germany , the country for which the new strategy had apparently been devised . |
| 14 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
| 15 | This information has been taken from an article ( Saunders and Hon-Chung , 1984 ) in the Journal of Sales Management for which the first author was editor . |
| 16 | A similar effect is seen with a shorter ( GC ) n insert [ ( GC ) 4 G ) , data not shown ] for which the first GC step is cut with lower efficiency . |
| 17 | I think this construction receives some indirect support from subsection ( 6 ) which limits the costs which the unassisted party can recover to costs attributable to those parts of the proceedings for which the other party was in receipt of legal aid . |
| 18 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 19 | Is the department a marginal service for which the overhead commitment is already made or is it to recover all its costs , including capital ? |
| 20 | It is a somewhat curious body in that much of its jurisdiction is to hear appeals on questions of law , for which the lay members might appear unfitted . |
| 21 | Certainly there may be situations and organizations for which the democratic principle is inappropriate . |
| 22 | Writers on architecture such as J. C. Loudon in the 1830s and George Godwin in the 1840s , interest themselves in the houses of the poor ; while in the latter decade not only Dickens but many other novelists are concerned with a variety of living spaces for which the middle class home , rather than the aristocrat 's , sets the standard . |
| 23 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 24 | Europe 's laudable ambition also to become a gleaming citadel of environmental protection ( for which the European Parliament was calling the other day ) may have the same effect . |
| 25 | The results in Table 7.2 clearly show a reduction in the number of word-paths for all sets ; however there were also many utterances for which the correct word-path was not included as one of the alternative word-paths ( Table 7.3 ) . |
| 26 | FOR DECADES , professional and amateur politicians , encouraged by a vociferous band of scientists and engineers , have relentlessly pursued the reclamation of land for which the distant eye sees no use . |
| 27 | Before the Prime Minister answers , let me repeat that a Member must ask questions about matters for which the Prime Minister is responsible ; he can not answer for Labour party policies . |
| 28 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 29 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 30 | In general terms , the monarchical presidency — with its combination of assertiveness abroad , pageantry and preachifying at home , and lofty detachment from daily politics ( for which the prime minister took responsibility ) — proved a successful formula . |