Example sentences of "which [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fearsome overhang on the third pitch , which calls for the bold gritstone approach favoured by neither of us , caused further delay . |
| 32 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 33 | Gareth Rees , co-ordinator of the Norwich Union Coastwatch programme at Farnborough College , said : ‘ Despite increased government legislation and political rhetoric , we are faced with results which indicate for the fourth year running a deterioration in the state of our coastline . |
| 34 | The U.K. event is only part of the Glenlivet European Trophy , which began for the other European branches of Seagram in 1988 . |
| 35 | A full-time welfare and education office is complemented by administrative and site executive offices which cater for the day-to-day operation of the Union and provide typing and photocopying facilities . |
| 36 | A full-time welfare and education office is complemented by administrative and site executive offices which cater for the day-to-day operation of the Union and provide typing and photocopying facilities . |
| 37 | Ticketlink , which arranges for the underprivileged , elderly , disabled and unemployed to enjoy events they can not usually afford or get to , is calling for its scheme to be extended throughout Britain . |
| 38 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 39 | The last is the same as the one used for the popular Jazz series , which accounts for the familiar fit and feel . |
| 40 | Many writers take the view that it is the changing structure of spending , described immediately above , which accounts for the changing structure of employment in modern western society . |
| 41 | It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals . |
| 42 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |
| 43 | For the dreamer this illusion represents a deep and pleasurable necessity — which accounts for the well-known state of mind in which a dreamer can say , " It is a dream : I want to go on dreaming it . " |
| 44 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 45 | So , by the time they went to Scotland , Boswell had visibly engaged with the project , which accounts for the everyday discipline he displayed in writing his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides . |
| 46 | The deportees ' spokesman , Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi , said the UN statement was an attempt to bypass Security Council resolution 799 , which called for the immediate return of all the deportees . |
| 47 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 48 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
| 49 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
| 50 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 51 | But as well as providing services , it 's also the council which speaks for the whole county . |
| 52 | The Commercial Farmers Union , which speaks for the 4,300 white farmers , says that too much resettlement could endanger Zimbabwe 's special status as an African country that can feed itself . |
| 53 | There is an urgent need for sensible housing which caters for the basic physical and behavioural needs of the hens , but which can be easily and economically managed . |
| 54 | But even the Randolph , which caters for the top end of the market , has felt the chill wind of economic depression . |
| 55 | The Conceicao programme has a few hospital beds but its main functions are to run community health centres in favelas and a large primary care clinic in the main hospital which caters for the local population . |
| 56 | When a new hotel opens what are the effects on existing hotels which compete for the same customers ? |
| 57 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 58 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 59 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 60 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |