Example sentences of "for the [noun] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would do his bidding , more or less , and for the present they would have to cope with Anne . |
| 2 | ( For the present you may have to give up smoking , but that could be an excellent idea in itself ! ) |
| 3 | Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon . |
| 4 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 5 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 6 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 7 | ‘ But for the hurricane we would have a third quarter profit of almost £22m and a return to profits in the nine months , ’ says Robertson . |
| 8 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 9 | ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't . |
| 10 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 11 | It was held that this was no defence for the defendants who should have relied upon the defence of ‘ act or default of another person . ’ |
| 12 | Eleven Clay Cross councillors were surcharged for the money which would have been obtained had the Act been implemented and they were also disqualified from holding public office for a period . |
| 13 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 14 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 15 | ( No Robina Mary , Robina Elizabeth for the girl who should have been a boy . ) |
| 16 | You 're paying for the hole they should have dug provided it was at least as big as they |
| 17 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 18 | Broadly these are to make proposals for a scheme of government for the Province which shall have widespread acceptance within the community and in which the whole community can participate . |
| 19 | For the moment it may have smoothed or at least covered the jagged edges between the two sides . |
| 20 | First , they wanted to see if he could pass himself off as Swedish , or if there was anybody working for the enemy who might have an inkling of his presence or identity . |
| 21 | But for the woodwork he 'd have been on the score sheet . |
| 22 | If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model ! |
| 23 | Boltanski photographed each of 143 pupils when he visited London in September and he is testing the way in which art is created by its context by also sending the portraits to the pupils ' parents in return for the fee which would have been charged by the school photographer . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably . |
| 25 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |