Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment . |
| 2 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 3 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
| 4 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 5 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 6 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
| 7 | The National Retreat Movement which has existed for 30 years to promote spirituality and retreats of all kinds within the Catholic community of England , Wales and Scotland , has the information available . |
| 8 | When the great house becomes the possession of a nation , it can more easily be accepted as ‘ a noble picture ’ , ‘ a history in stone ’ , preserving in art , if not in life , that radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it , that remembered notion of human community which has gone for good . |
| 9 | The move , by the new coalition of Liberals and Christian Democrats , satisfies the Dutch confederation of industry , which has lobbied for more support for industrial R&D and innovations . |
| 10 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
| 11 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 12 | In Yamshchikov 's view the Hamburg sheet music library , which has lain for forty-five years in one of St Petersburg 's special storage areas , could be used for barter . |
| 13 | Action is being taken to encourage closer cooperation between Stockton council and its Asnieres-sur-Seine Twinning Association , which has appealed for more support . |
| 14 | It may be afraid to annoy foreign network-operators with new local services and so jeopardise the chances of selling them equipment , which has accounted for much of AT&T 's recent growth . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is the growth of white-collar employment which has accounted for most of the expansion of the upper middle class . |
| 16 | DB2 Version 3 will support the DRDA extension for the two-phase commit protocol , which manages commit for multiple relational database systems in a single unit of work , enabling IMS/ESA Transaction Manager , IMS batch and CICS applications to update remote databases . |
| 17 | The difficulty is that in the absence of an explicit theory of sociolinguistic structure which attempts to account for these relationships , there is no principled way of deciding which variable offers the greater insight into patterns of variation . |