Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group 's book printing business had performed well , he said , increasing market share in hardbacks , which had compensated for a fall in demand for mass market paperbacks during the six months . |
| 2 | It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness . |
| 3 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 4 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 5 | This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system . |
| 6 | The US resolution was not supported by the PLO which had pressed for the dispatch of a mission reporting directly to the Security Council ( i.e. not to the UN Secretary-General ) . |
| 7 | The problems which had arisen for the Government were the rising prison population , and the cost of imprisonment . |
| 8 | I recognise that it is , equally , a disappointment for the other yards which had tendered for the work , and for the people in those areas . |
| 9 | First , Parliament gave statutory recognition and reinforcement to the existing regime of contractual receivers appointed by debenture holders which had operated for the public benefit . |
| 10 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 11 | A fall off in world prices dampened the expectations of international creditor banks , which had hoped for a higher level of interest payments on Ecuador 's foreign debt ( estimated to be over US$12,000 million ) , as well as domestic hopes for increased social spending . |
| 12 | The new renown of Walter Machin and the heady publicity which had resulted for the town in which he lived had suggested to the Arts Club committee ( a mixture of the local genteel and the local far left ) that a retrospective of the work of his stepson might neatly capitalize on the widespread interest . |
| 13 | The opening ceremony on Feb. 19 of the National Assembly , which had convened for a 35-day session to elect Taiwan 's President , was disrupted by opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) members protesting at " mainland " domination . |
| 14 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 15 | Even more important , the emperor 's participation , which had accounted for the selection of many eleventh-century popes ( and anti-popes ) had been totally rejected by 1179 . |
| 16 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) The Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Bill would give blacks equal property rights , and would repeal the Group Areas Act of 1966 , the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 restricting black farming to 13 per cent of the country , and the Black Communities Development Act , which had provided for the establishment of black townships . |
| 18 | Legislation was passed in 1898 which attempted to provide for the co-ordination of the various regulations . |
| 19 | A week later the Senate created the Landesarbeitsamt — a kind of labour exchange , but one which refused to cater for the Polish unemployed of Danzig . |