Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between us , our ancestors have travelled through three continents for us to arrive here . |
| 2 | Because here we have looked at four options for the western highway and th and those stars could indicate any of those four options so I think |
| 3 | In recent years , the provisions of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 have come under increasing criticism for being unnecessary and out-moded for current technology . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the two Ulster courses and Dundalk have to suffer through poor entries for their jumping races . |
| 5 | They have excelled in leading-edge technologies for military and computer applications . |
| 6 | Before trying to link the legal model of corporate managerial power to a particular conception of the company a sketch of three conceptions of the company which have vied at different periods for dominance in corporate law doctrine and scholarship will be given . |
| 7 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 8 | A third group of rural in-migrants comprises those who have moved from metropolitan areas for employment reasons . |
| 9 | However , I am grateful to the hon. Lady for welcoming the announcement that we have made of increased resources for Holy Loch , following the withdrawal of the American navy . |
| 10 | Yes I I I Yeah sorry to interrupt , I mean I follow the arguments you 've used within the document but I the figure which the H H B F have attributed to vacant dwellings for example is just under two thousand five hundred . |
| 11 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 12 | The Executive Committee have agreed to this proposal for the following reasons . |
| 13 | We have played in this country for both Lancashire and Surrey county cricket clubs and have bowled hundreds of overs for both counties . |
| 14 | Proud veterans who have contributed to National Insurance for decades are reduced to applying for means-tested benefits along with layabouts , New Age travellers and the like who have contributed nothing . |
| 15 | Over the past year Roadcare and Inroads have competed against each other for various trophies in different sporting events . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , group members also have to compete with each other for many necessary resources . |
| 17 | New programmes have to compete with each other for limited resources , regardless of their priority . |
| 18 | Direct labour housing construction and maintenance departments of local authorities ( DLOs ) now have to compete with commercial tenders for much of their work . |
| 19 | ( Gypsies have camped on this land for generations . |
| 20 | Already , the effects of top ranking have translated into healthy demand for places at Glenlola . |
| 21 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 22 | Past IRA campaigns have concentrated on similar targets for several weeks at a time . |
| 23 | South Yorkshire police have asked for 17 posts for the coming year ; they have been given 16 . |
| 24 | Already , they have appeared with great acclaim for five years in succession on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival — so successfully , that they were finally invited to the ‘ official ’ Edinburgh International Festival — the first cabaret artists since Marlene Dietrich to be so invited ! |
| 25 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 26 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 27 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd love to speak languages but you have to live in another country for a certain amount of time and in this job you have to get up and go , so I have n't had much chance to spend time abroad . |
| 29 | The publicity surrounding such cases and the call for greater disclosure in life assurance company accounts have led to some proposals for introducing new accounting practices for proprietary life companies which seek to re-spread shareholder profits more relevantly over the term of the individual policies . |
| 30 | Almost all Cologne galleries have put on new shows for the Premierentage Festival that began 30 April , including Gisela Capitain who is showing new works on paper by Richard Artschwager ( until 29 May ) . |