Example sentences of "for which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 2 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 3 | I should remind him and the House that the Government set up Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution , for which we got no credit whatsoever from Her Majesty 's Opposition . |
| 4 | When General Ayub Khan said , ‘ Martial Law is now imposed , ’ both cousin Zafar and I understood that his voice — that voice filled with power and decision and the rich timbre of my aunt 's finest cooking — was speaking a thing for which we knew only one word : treason . |
| 5 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 6 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |
| 7 | Even after we moved up , we still begged her to carry on letting the cottage , and later we built another one , up the hill , on the site of a collapsed pigsty for which we had inherited planning permission . |
| 8 | We were ordinary seafaring men and founding and running a national union was , to say the least , a job for which we had had no training . |
| 9 | In the course of the evening a note was handed in from Mrs Campbell of Jura House saying she had heard of our arrival and as she was sure there was no comfort in the Hotel she hoped we would come there in the morning and stay with them while we were on the island , assuring us also that she would do all in her power to further the cause for which we had come . |
| 10 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 11 | We might conjecture that the general form of the solution for which we seek is as follows : |
| 12 | In ordinary affairs , for which we aspire only to the best choice on the available information , the only assurance we need is that each veering of spontaneous reaction with expanding awareness is objectively a change for the better . |
| 13 | An excellent example , for which we know the explicit intention of the inventors , is the London School of Economics coat of arms which has a beaver as key figure . |
| 14 | Erm there 's the P W P five year thing which , which we 've got to erm cover for which we 've covered as two F T E for the six months and then we 'll need to review that after that . |
| 15 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 16 | Suppose we have a square matrix A = unc of order n for which we require to find the reciprocal R : then AR = I. |
| 17 | Inclining his head to the militia officer , Arnold Peck said , ‘ We have performed the duty for which we came here . |
| 18 | Copies of prints from earlier sessions for which we do not have the negatives , can be processed , but are usually more expensive . |
| 19 | Faced with an annual poll tax demand of £380 ‘ for which we do n't even get the bin emptied ’ says secretary/manager Vince Kirkup the club wrote to the new Lib-Dem administration seeking relief . |
| 20 | Er and Professor is right that it was paragraph B er which at the time was A A er it 's now B B , that caused er me and er my colleagues some difficulty erm in er policy and resources and it will be the reason for which we do n't support it this afternoon . |
| 21 | I think , I think we should see it for what it is , which is a power struggle inside a ruling elite in the Soviet Union for which we do n't really have an interest in taking sides . |
| 22 | You stop the discovery of new medicines and treatments for heart disease , for cancer , for things like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson 's Diseases — the diseases for which we do n't yet have treatments — that you slow down progress too much if you get too many restrictions . |
| 23 | We usually gained our ends by astute and almost instinctive creation of alliances , for which we provided leadership , and small but professional military forces that were sought by friends and feared by foes for the impact they could make upon contemporary balances of power . |
| 24 | These include a most valuable Consultation Paper ( No. 120 ) published last year by the Law Commission ‘ Restitution of Payments Made Under a Mistake of Law , ’ for which we owe much to Mr. Jack Beatson and also , I understand , to Dr. Sue Arrowsmith ; and a series of articles by academic lawyers of distinction working in the field of restitution . |
| 25 | Again , there are those who would quarrel with this view but let me tell you that we all have a mentor , an inner teacher , a guardian angel , a being of light who protects us and is totally dedicated to the task of leading us to the point of self-realization , to bring about the harmony and peace for which we pray . |
| 26 | Also , there 's a great deal of sickness for which we need medicines . |
| 27 | It all depends on the purpose for which we need a scenario . |
| 28 | ‘ We need a vote , ’ put in Lord Beddington suddenly , deciding this was a legal matter , ‘ to vote whether we have another vote for which we need your casting vote . ’ |
| 29 | It is a desire millions of us know and share , yet for which we have no name . |
| 30 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |