Example sentences of "which is [vb pp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will keep this addition , which is intended to compensate for the VAT they can not reclaim . |
| 2 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 3 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 4 | One of the highlights is a sketch book containing prints taken in the 1840s of people , ships , rigging and a street scene , which is estimated to sell for £20–30,000 ( $35–55,000 ) . |
| 5 | This suggests that the expansion is largely due to rural-urban migration , which is estimated to account for 40–70 per cent of urban growth in the post-war period up to 1970 ( Morse 1971 ) , and about 50 per cent since then . |
| 6 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 7 | Included in this sale of the Dallhold Collection is Rupert Bunny 's ‘ Mrs Herbert Jones and her daughters , Hilda and Dulce ’ ( signed , 1904 , oil on canvas , 107x137 cm , ) , which is expected to go for Aus$450–550,000 ( £190–230,000 ; $340–415,000 ) . |
| 8 | Four friends will be keeping pace with him on the ground , carrying all the spares he might need for a flight which is expected to last for a month . |
| 9 | Mr Goldring told the jury on the second day of the trial , which is expected to last for three months , that Bradley had been put on an intravenous drip but in the early hours of the next morning he shouted out , complaining of pain around the drip site . |
| 10 | Sheriff Andrew Bell adjourned the trial , which is expected to last for two to three weeks , until tomorrow . |
| 11 | The feature of this sale of Nineteenth-century Continental pictures , drawings and watercolours is a painting by Gustave Moreau entitled ‘ Prometheus Bound ’ , which is expected to sell for £300–500,000 ( $530–900,000 ) . |
| 12 | This sale of British drawings and watercolours will have at its hub ‘ The Splügen Pass ’ by J.M.W.Turner ( pencil and watercolour with scratching out , 292x451 mm ) , which is estimated to fetch £250–350,000 ( $450–630,000 ) , and Thomas Gainsborough 's ‘ A peasant family going to market ’ ( black chalk and stump , grey and brown wash heightened with white on brown paper , 410x533 mm ) , which is expected to sell for £300–400,000 ( $550–725,000 ) . |
| 13 | A stuffed lion which is expected to sell for more than a thousand pounds is just one of the unusual exhibits at a auction of taxidermy . |