Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell has submitted for environmental approval a £1.5 billion plan to clean up its oil refinery at Pernis , near Rotterdam . |
| 2 | The parliament has called for other EC countries to follow the Dutch lead . |
| 3 | She tells me that the Mum has applied for free meals but should really pay back the money owed . |
| 4 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 5 | A Countryside Commission review has called for wide-ranging reforms to protect the 10 national parks of England and Wales from the growing threats of development and tourism . |
| 6 | The latest study has gone for first-hand evidence , by looking at Inland Revenue figures for bequeathed estates , and by conducting a couple of sample surveys . |
| 7 | A COUNCIL poised to lose £1m in benefit aid has appealed for Parliamentary help . |
| 8 | A year later , he produced a second album , Fans , which did for — or unto — opera what Duck Rock had done for ethnic music . |
| 9 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 10 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 11 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 12 | The Institute has called for new pensions legislation to be introduced , with limitations on the use of pension fund surpluses , and new accounting and auditing requirements . |
| 13 | The council has asked for nonperishable food and basic medicines to add to the convoy of aid soon to depart for Russia . |
| 14 | The 1902 Act established a system of secondary education as the 1870 Act had done for elementary education , by filling the gaps in the existing provision with non-denominational state schools ( they were not free until 1944 ) . |
| 15 | In some situations , the mill had to provide for substantial numbers of people for , apart from the monks themselves , there were frequently large numbers of lay brethren and servants . |
| 16 | Significantly , by the end of the period coinage as cash had appeared for commercial transactions . |
| 17 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 18 | He had used the police computer network and discovered his wife had volunteered for nursing duty . |
| 19 | Diro 's elevation was , it appeared , the price Namaliu had to pay for continued PAP support for his Pangu Pati-led coalition . |
| 20 | ‘ Traditionally the Careers Advisory Service have catered for young people up to the age of 19 , ’ explained senior advisor , Paul Barnes , ‘ but now we plan to extend our information and advisory service to adult clients . ’ |
| 21 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 22 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 23 | The employment protection legislation has created for certain employees a proprietary right in their jobs . |
| 24 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 25 | All European Members would have liked to pay tribute to the splendid work that she and the Government have done for overseas development . |
| 26 | The Australian RSPCA has called for immediate reforms to animal protection laws after discovering 10,000 sheep had starved to death on a farm in south-western New South Wales . |
| 27 | Ekstrom has played for Italian club Empoli , Bayern Munich and French club Cannes during his career . |
| 28 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 29 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 30 | AN MP has called for improved security at a school following a spate of vandalism . |