Example sentences of "[adj] people have [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years .
2 There can be no doubt that he had an ear for what such people have to say for themselves .
3 More than one thousand people have applied for three hundred temporary jobs at a photocopier factory in the Forest of Dean .
4 More than one thousand people have applied for three hundred temporary jobs at a photocopier factory in the Forest of Dean .
5 All the enterprising , healthy people have left for other planets on which the replicants are slaves and soldiers ( they are not wanted or permitted on Earth , with the doubtful exception of Rachael ) .
6 Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is evidence of the growing success of the Government 's education reforms that this year 28,800 people have enrolled for teacher training courses — 20 per cent .
7 She reported initial agreement on medical evacuations from the city , where some badly wounded people have lain for months without being able to get proper treatment or artificial limbs .
8 The tax signalled that he was both tough on the deficit ( it will raise , he hopes , $12 billion over the next five years , and $12 billion a year thereafter ) and serious about the environment ( the more people have to pay for energy , the less likely they are to squander it . )
9 Do n't eh , do the , do the Dutch people have to pay for the schooling ?
10 ‘ All of us in democratic politics are only where we are by the will of the people and the American people have voted for change .
11 It had started as an evening of fun , said Harper 's defence team , 5 young people doing what young people have done for centuries .
12 More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom .
13 With counting incomplete , triumphant water minister Michael Howard has already announced that up to 1.4 million people have applied for water shares — and the figure could well top 2 million .
14 As one of the most influential Marxist analysts of health care , Navarro ( 1986 ) argues that working-class people have struggled for medical services not because they are " mystified " by medicine 's bogus claims , as Illich argues , but because it has brought genuine benefits which Illich overlooks , particularly in the care and relief of chronic illness .
15 Altogether about 260 people have volunteered for early release under AGN 10/92 , which followed the announcement of the end of Government funding for Fast Reactor R&D .
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