Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 2 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 3 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 4 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 5 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 6 | The inquiry had heard forensic details of each individual death but as Mark Smith reports the parents had hoped for a great deal more . |
| 7 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 8 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 9 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 10 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 11 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 12 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 13 | Congress , our principles have stood for a hundred and three years . |
| 14 | Liberals had argued for a wider franchise for years and Unionists had demanded a redistribution , so both sides got something of what they wanted and proportional representation was thrown in with the present mood of Labour in mind , so that the anti-socialist parties would be able to consolidate their position if necessary . |
| 15 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 16 | LABOUR councillors have called for a massive public demonstration to save Woodchurch swimming pool , amid fears it could be lost ‘ by stealth . ’ |
| 17 | There are some 250,000 Salvadoreans now living in regions which the FMLN forces have controlled for a considerable period of time , in some cases for up to three years . |
| 18 | Asahi Shimbun newspapers have paid for a new , environmentally controlled area to be constructed for their display . |
| 19 | Any one of the above features could result in a person being labelled schizophrenic , providing some other criteria are met , such as the symptoms having lasted for a certain length of time . |
| 20 | She clung to the picture of Mrs Rundle at home , for she had been a part of her home and the children had moored for a short while in the black harbour of her lap . |
| 21 | Instead of preserving the statistics-and-dice method of combat , the programmers have opted for a tacky arcade sequence featuring blocky , sluggish sprites and no skill at all . |
| 22 | Dr Andrei Sakharov and other leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday to put pressure on the Congress of People 's Deputies , the country 's supreme legislative body . |
| 23 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 24 | Many big chains had pushed for a 2 per cent reduction , but believe the 1 per cent cut could still help . |
| 25 | Earlier reports on Sept. 7 and 10 had claimed that opposition groups had called for a popular revolt against Saddam Hussein , and had agreed on a plan for joint action , with plans for a government-in-exile composed of " various wings of the Iraqi opposition " . |
| 26 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 27 | The demonstration 's organizers had called for a mass " anti-fascist " rally on June 22 ( the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War ) . |
| 28 | Prior to Gore 's entry into the affair , some 75 members of Congress and eight of the erstwhile hostages had called for a full inquiry . |
| 29 | Residents have campaigned for a long time for a speed restriction and traffic calming in Skerne Park , which has a high accident rate . |
| 30 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |