Example sentences of "which [pron] [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 2 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 3 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 4 | It was very difficult to find experienced people … in fields in which everything was destroyed for 50 successive years . " |
| 5 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 6 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 7 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 8 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 9 | Documents served by post are deemed to be served on the second business day after posting ; those delivered via a document exchange on the second business day after the day on which they were left for collection . |
| 10 | It appeared , on examining the offences involved , that Blacks had more ‘ indictable only ’ offences , and also more ‘ triable-either-way ’ offences for which they were committed for trial . |
| 11 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 12 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 13 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 15 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 16 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |
| 17 | The movie was quickly forgotten but director Martin Scorsese remembered Pesci and hired him to play Joey La Motta in Raging Bull , for which he was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 18 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 19 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 20 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 21 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |