Example sentences of "that have for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a puzzle that has for many years intrigued mathematicians and philosophers . |
| 2 | This paper will address later the way this sort of e-mail is used and the implications that has for legal and records management departments . |
| 3 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 4 | The new Commonwealth was at least a genuinely voluntary union , and yet it was far from clear that it provided the answer to nationality differences that had for so long eluded the Gorbachev leadership . |
| 5 | Things that had for centuries slept without stirring , but that were now stirring and waking and might , at any moment , come prowling through the forest … |
| 6 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 7 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |
| 8 | Within that first fraction of potential benefit , I classified the endorsement of ‘ science ’ in place of the separate sciences that have for so long unbalanced or distorted the secondary curriculum ; the opportunity to rethink the nature and role of technology ; and the challenge to begin planning , for all secondary students , a foundation course in a foreign language . |
| 9 | Make- up artists are brought in to transform the faces of these girls ; their hands are slapped away from beige foundation , and the sleek colours of Chanel bring the glow of affluent youth to faces that have for more than twenty years caused most men to avert their gazes in dismay . |