Example sentences of "which [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following set of figures shows new fixed-sum and other retail credit as a percentage of the total volume of spending on clothing and shoes , durables ( including electrical goods and furniture ) and cars and motorcycles , which account for the great bulk of this type of credit : |
| 2 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 3 | Owing to their deep-rooted hostility towards the very concept of involuntary unemployment and their a priori conviction that the labour market clears ‘ more or less continuously ’ , new classical macroeconomists are driven to look beyond this obvious explanation towards hypotheses which account for the acknowledged phenomenon of business cycles while at the same time preserving intact their beliefs in the robustness of all markets , including the labour market . |
| 4 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 5 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 6 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 7 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 8 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
| 9 | The published version of the draft constitution , which provided for the direct election of the president for an eight-year renewable term , and allowed the president to issue emergency decrees , did not include an amendment approved by the Assembly recommending that Saddam Hussein be elected President for life . |
| 10 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | The free trade agreement between Canada and the USA ( signed in 1988 and implemented from Jan. 1 , 1989 ) , which provided for the eventual abolition of all customs duties between the USA and Canada after one , five and 10 years , continued to produce disputes between the two countries over specific items during 1990 . |
| 12 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 13 | This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports . |
| 14 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 15 | In the previous Section it has been shown that these harmonics can contribute to the mechanical output power , because harmonics of current lead to harmonics of motional voltage — The approach adopted here is to introduce a " torque correction factor " which allows for the harmonic contribution to the pull-out torque . |
| 16 | Check out agencies , such as the London-based Cornerstone ( 071–486 5551 ) , which act for the large financial institutions and handle their repossessions . |
| 17 | Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] . |
| 18 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |
| 19 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 20 | To summarize , where know means " experience directly " , the knowing is frequently represented as accompanying the action experienced , instant by instant , throughout its duration — a coincidence in time which calls for the bare infinitive . |
| 21 | The fearsome overhang on the third pitch , which calls for the bold gritstone approach favoured by neither of us , caused further delay . |
| 22 | The U.K. event is only part of the Glenlivet European Trophy , which began for the other European branches of Seagram in 1988 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 27 | The last is the same as the one used for the popular Jazz series , which accounts for the familiar fit and feel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals . |
| 30 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |