Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No shots were fired , but in an earlier action today , H M S Battleaxe fired warning salvos across the bows of an Iraqi ship which failed to stop for cargo inspection . |
| 2 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 3 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 4 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 5 | On the fourth side was the meeting chamber or auditorium which provided seating for over 1200 persons . |
| 6 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 7 | She went on gay-rights marches — although , as far as anyone knew , she was heterosexual — and was wont to punch the air with her fist at moments which seemed to call for affirmation or triumph . |
| 8 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 9 | There were signs of human habitation , scraps of litter , faint smells , broken pottery , strange markings on the walls of the caves which seemed to stretch for ever down into the blackness beneath the cliffs . |
| 10 | Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage . |
| 11 | If I went there I should n't know which bit to aim for . |
| 12 | The report represents a victory for the Confederation of British Industry and a lobby led by Emma Nicholson , Tory MP for Devon West and Torridge , which had campaigned for tough new laws . |
| 13 | The policy change , which the 600-member council endorsed , was nonetheless a victory for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a broad alliance which had campaigned for urgent constitutional changes on the grounds that the referendum was unnecessary . |
| 14 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 15 | The group 's book printing business had performed well , he said , increasing market share in hardbacks , which had compensated for a fall in demand for mass market paperbacks during the six months . |
| 16 | One wonders whether this can be the same nation which had gained for itself the reputation of being a stolid , pipe-sucking manhood , unmoved by panic or excitement , and reliable in the tightest of places . |
| 17 | Elaine 's face , which had pleaded for her understanding , became closed and withdrawn . |
| 18 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 19 | It was the law of joint enterprise in homicide which had done for him , the same law which had hanged Derek Bentley . |
| 20 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
| 21 | Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired . |
| 22 | It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness . |
| 23 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 24 | The Wyndham Act of 1903 gave the deathblow to the old landlord system which had existed for centuries . |
| 25 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 26 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 27 | Born out of a particular set of circumstances , the treaty did little to unite France , but served rather to underline the divisions which had existed for two decades or more . |
| 28 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 29 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 30 | The US resolution was not supported by the PLO which had pressed for the dispatch of a mission reporting directly to the Security Council ( i.e. not to the UN Secretary-General ) . |