Example sentences of "which [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No new procedure is without technical problems , which account for the phenomenon of the learning curve that occurs with all new technical treatments .
2 Can you think of reasons in others which account for the way you react as you do ?
3 Although the lines are exceedingly fine ( ie , just resolved ) at this distance , increasing the separation between source and observer can produce very strong lines which account for the glare I have noticed .
4 There is a richness of musical resources — many previously unavailable to a mass audience — and an excitement about new technological possibilities , new social relations and new kinds of musical behaviour which account for the fact that cultural struggle could take place here within musical production itself .
5 It is often easier to locate the leak with the water in , or by marking the water level at which to search for the leak , unless of course the fault is in the bottom of the pool .
6 " Pacific Water " , on the other hand , is a dynamic , upward-spiralling form which represents for the artist " the sparkling , clear visual quality of Pacific water ( OED definition " tending to Peace " ) — water in its purest form " .
7 In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market .
8 The system chosen was a form which asked for the name of the pupil , their form , and the author and title of the book borrowed .
9 By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages .
10 ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’
11 When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier .
12 This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries .
13 So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " .
14 Modules which provide for the development of basic competences in Sciences .
15 There are indeed provisions within the Rome Treaty — specifically Articles 100 to 102 — which provide for the approximation of national laws .
16 Clauses which provide for the expert to be a firm or company are usually found in commercial applications of the type considered in Chapters 2 – 5 .
17 It provides the framework for an interpretation of action but the full story is only revealed by an examination of the rules which direct action and which provide for the interpretation of situations .
18 A supervision order will cease to have effect if certain steps are taken or orders made under s25(1) ( a ) or ( b ) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 which provide for the recognition and enforcement of foreign custody orders .
19 There are no general provisions which provide for the aggregation of investment income of an unmarried minor with that of his parents .
20 The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation .
21 An excess of confusion and costs would attend a system which provided for the affairs of the street to be regulated by its inhabitants , and likewise those of the hamlet , parish , market town , county and region .
22 Within a year of partition , the Constabulary Act ( NI ) 1922 was passed , which provided for the formation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) .
23 Virtually all of the republics , by the late 1980s , had adopted legislation which provided for the majority language of that republic to enjoy official status .
24 Admittedly , the Brugnoni case is concerned with article 2(1) of the First Directive , which provided for the grant of general authorisations in respect of the capital movements set out in list B of Annex I , and Directive ( 85/566/E.E.C. ) repealed that article and merged list B with list A referred to in article 1(1) , under which member states are to grant all foreign exchange authorisations required .
25 In February 1959 a treaty was made between the United Kingdom and the United Arab Republic which provided for the return of sequestrated property , except property sold between October 1956 and August 1958 .
26 On April 28 the two ministers signed an agreement which provided for the repatriation of an estimated 200,000 Rohingya Moslems who had crossed into Bangladesh from Myanma 's Arakan province .
27 I much regretted the dismissive attitude taken by my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) , who has clearly totally forgotten that the Western European Union was revitalised , added Spain and Portugal to its ranks , and produced the Hague platform — which provided for the WEU 's nine members to defend their borders , with nuclear weapons if need be .
28 Under the second , a development agreement , which provided for the property 's development by the developers , the Prudential agreed to pay certain building costs .
29 On Feb. 4 the Knesset approved legislation which provided for the holding of a general election on June 23 .
30 The US Supreme Court on Dec. 12 struck down a New York state law which provided for the seizure of profits made by convicted criminals from publicizing their crimes .
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