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

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1 1985 Assenovgrad Mavrud , which Waitrose is selling for £3.79 , represents excellent value for a splendidly solid , chunky wine , with fruit and tanin .
2 It is the inappropriate context that needs description , like the room in which Clarissa is imprisoned for debt .
3 ‘ Particularly he loves the procession , in which God is blessed for the fruits of the field and the parish bounds are maintained ; in which there is charity in loving , walking together , and mercy in relieving the poor . ’
4 Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced Elstob to 12 months in jail consecutive to an eight-year sentence which Elstob is serving for robbery .
5 Charles Temple almost certainly came to Northern Nigeria with the idea of another Punjab in mind : his father , the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple , had been in his youth one of John Lawrence 's hard-riding young men , and it was he who wrote in 1901 asking for his son ‘ to become one of the recruits which Lugard is raising for Nigeria .
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