Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 3 | Experience in the United States of America , where legislative history has for many years been much more generally admissible than I am now suggesting , shows how important it is to maintain strict control over the use of such material . |
| 4 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 5 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |