Example sentences of "who [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fiona Hyslop , one of the national executive committee members who voted for the unsuccessful motion drawn up by the policy vice-convener , Rob Gibson , which expressed regret at the leadership 's decision during last weekend 's NEC meeting , criticised the party infighting . |
| 32 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 33 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 34 | He was the accomplice of those who pushed for the 20 per cent . |
| 35 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 36 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |