Example sentences of "have [verb] for [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has applied for licences in a total of eight blocks in the latest round of offshore licensing organised by the Government . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) Where a body corporate has applied for recognition in accordance with Rule 15 the Council may recognise the body as a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships where the Council is satisfied : |
| 3 | The G M B has argued for change in how the T U C operates . |
| 4 | I recognise the powerful representations that my hon. Friend has made for industries in his constituency , and particularly the bicycle industry . |
| 5 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has appealed for restraint in the wake of the Castlerock murders . |
| 6 | The first pollution futures market , trading in " permits to pollute " , has opened for business in Chicago , where the first trade in permits took place last year [ see EDs 59/60 ; 63 ] . |
| 7 | AMERICAN Congressman Robert Menendez has called for change in the way suspects are treated in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | In terms of a debate , he will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has called for debates in the Scottish Grand Committee and I hope that everyone will contribute to them . |
| 9 | In it are paintings which refer to some of the literary works which the group has mined for material in the past Kafka 's America and Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter as well as new ones such as Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland . |
| 10 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 11 | Markab and Gamma ( Algenib ) make useful comparisons , though one has to allow for differences in altitude . |
| 12 | However , this is small beer set against the £1.8bn Ford has earmarked for investment in the UK between 1988 and 1993 . |
| 13 | Mr McWhinney 's family has asked for donations in lieu of flowers to be made to the club 's runway repair fund . |
| 14 | Since then he has campaigned for improvements in farm animal welfare . |
| 15 | Istanbul 's covered bazaar : Mark Warner Travel has to account for clubs in Turkey and in other resorts throughout the Mediterranean |
| 16 | He has fought for Serbia in Croatia and he will protect us from genocide . ’ |
| 17 | He has searched for and found treasure on every continent ( except Antarctica ) , and he has dived for treasure in every ocean . |
| 18 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
| 19 | She 's has survived for years in the tough world of clubs to eventually come out top . |
| 20 | This confusion has existed for centuries in Europe , notably in France . |
| 21 | But , as fate would have it , my work has lain for years in a field where I was obliged strictly to keep my political convictions to myself . |
| 22 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 23 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 24 | She 'd dressed for breakfast in shorts and T-shirt and it was n't the ideal outfit for talking business with hotel managers . |
| 25 | In the past patients who travel from all over the world have had to sit for hours in hospital waiting rooms , with nothing to amuse them . |
| 26 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 27 | Such pity as she well may have felt for Ramsey in its distress , he has traduced and despoiled , and here we have no rights . |
| 28 | Academician Dmitriy Likhachev , the highly-respected Chairman of the Russian International Culture Fund said : ‘ If such a policy towards culture continues , I will have to apply for citizenship in a foreign country , because it is not worth living in a country whose government has an attitude to culture like ours . |
| 29 | The price that an institution ( or a whole country ) might have to pay for success in reversing a particular state of dependency might in the long run not be worth paying . |
| 30 | Subject to having to pay for goods in the last four categories , the customer is entitled to be repaid any money he has already paid . |