Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 2 | But they 've gone along with it without recognising that there will be a cost and members opposite have consistently criticised the European parliament for having a number of buildings from which to operate . |
| 3 | I do n't see that in any combination of these Amendments , I very much hope that my Noble Friend will come back at the report stage with our grateful thanks for having found a process which will produce a body of co of o of appointed members on the police authorities of a position to influence but not to determine his policy and that should be an a position , I agree with my Noble Friend , Lord Motterstone subordinate to that of the magistrates . |
| 4 | Breitenstein ( 1980 : 193 ) gives three different senses for have in its use with the bare infinitive : ( a ) I 'll have him clear up this mess ( an instruction ) ( b ) I wo n't have you say that ( a strong wish ) ( c ) I never had such a thing happen to me ( an experience ) |
| 5 | The international firms see themselves remaining independent although the founders of Korn/Ferry and Russell Reynolds are still large holders in their businesses , and how these organisations are going to resolve the equity issues , so that the founders of the firm are paid an acceptable return for having started the business is being watched with interest . |
| 6 | Justifiable basis for having dregs |
| 7 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 8 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 9 | Even if the Western powers were to act now with speed , resolution and cohesion they will never escape the moral responsibility for having dithered . |
| 10 | It reflects moral regret for having violated a situation of trust , and it shows concern that someone might have been hurt . ’ |
| 11 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 12 | His steam engine was awarded a prize of £100 by the Aeronautical Society for having the greatest power-to-weight ratio of all the fifteen engines exhibited , but unfortunately the triplane could never be tested in the still-air conditions to which it was suited , and so never proved itself to be , if indeed it was , a practical flying machine . |
| 13 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 14 | ‘ Give me a little credit for having no idea that my own supposed father was running a tape recording of our conversation ! ’ she responded sarcastically . |
| 15 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 16 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 17 | All the recordings bear the stamp of Walter Legge 's mastery as producer and also indicate the conductor 's welcome preference for having the second violins on his right , giving a better spread to the string sound . |
| 18 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 19 | So , if even there seems to be no obvious reason for having presented these recordings in this way , I am not really complaining . |
| 20 | There is a less obvious reason for having doubts about the value of the rank-ordering permitted and indeed encouraged by the STV . |
| 21 | Among a number of executions reported during December were the hanging of nine people on Dec. 7 in the town of Zahedan , south-east Iran , after being condemned by an Islamic court for having " disturbed the public order " in disturbances there in November . |
| 22 | In Gibbons v South West Water Services Ltd the Court of Appeal struck out the claim for aggravated damages , stating that , if the nuisance continued for longer than it should have done , the plaintiffs would be compensated by normal damages for having drunk more contaminated water . |
| 23 | There 's also a powerful case for having pensioner trustees there 's far less chance of erm people twisting their arm , although they could have the character . |
| 24 | There 's also a powerful case for having pensioner trustees that they will so there 's far less chance of erm people twisting their arm , although they could have the carrot dangled in front of them . |
| 25 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 26 | I have a great thankfulness for having known him and worked with him and learnt so much from him , and somehow I feel we 'll always have him with us in his paintings and the West Riding countryside and schools . |
| 27 | ETA in early 1989 issued threats against leaders of the Basque Nationalist Party ( Partido Nacionalista Vasco — PNV ) and other moderate Basque parties for having " sold out " to the government . |
| 28 | On the same day , however , Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato issued a carefully worded statement on behalf of the government which claimed that it was in " deep reflection for having caused unbearable agony and sorrow to the peoples in parts of Asia and the Pacific in fighting started with the attack on Pearl Harbour " . |
| 29 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 30 | Overcooking destroys vitamins , so vegetables are best eaten either raw or lightly cooked , and as some vitamins are lost after harvesting , the sooner the vegetables are eaten , the better — a good argument for having a small vegetable plot . |