Example sentences of "which it [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 2 | Japan announced that it would increase by 5,500 million yen ( approximately equivalent to $34,000,000 ) an 8,000 million yen special fund which it had created for providing technical assistance to Latin America . |
| 3 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 4 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 5 | In mid-1991 the ALP lost a by-election in Geraldton ( which it had held for more than 70 years ) , winning only 16.7 per cent of the primary vote and recording an unprecedented negative swing of 30 per cent . |
| 6 | There are two ways in which a theoretical abstraction can be matched against the actuality which it claims to account for . |
| 7 | One of the great services which McGavran has rendered to the missionary enterprise has been his insistence on the need to gather objective and accurate data in order to disperse the fog in which it has operated for so long . |