Example sentences of "have for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 32 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 33 | The United Kingdom has for many years been the preferred location for United States investment in Europe . |
| 34 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 35 | The CNAA , the body which has for many years awarded degrees in polytechnics , will cease operation in September 1992 and will be dissolved in March 1993 . |
| 36 | HCIMA has for many years been active in accrediting hotel and catering programmes , both in Europe and around the world . |
| 37 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 38 | The norm for the duration of commercial leases has for many years been twenty-five years . |
| 39 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 40 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 41 | The first step to getting Technopolis on the road is legislation to channel into the project what few funds the government has for regional development . |
| 42 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 43 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |
| 44 | I would like to outline some of the major terms of the legislation , the far reaching implications it has for unemployed people and what we as a local group are trying to do to combat it . |
| 45 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 46 | But the word romance has for most people the immediate association of love and , in the main , of heterosexual love . |
| 47 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 48 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 49 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 50 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 51 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 52 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 53 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 54 | Because of pressure from many different lobbies , government has for some time been considering in what way to respond to it . |
| 55 | The government has for some time known that this site would be available , yet from the announcement of the project to the Minister 's stated deadline for consultation is 8 months , including the summer months . |
| 56 | The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy . |
| 57 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 58 | Holloway prison 's C1 unit has for some time been the subject of public concern and outrage . |
| 59 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
| 60 | But three years later on 27 July 1795 the new head of the Macclesfield company , Abraham Mills , wrote to the new agent Thomas Harrison of Kendal , advising him , alas , that " … the Coniston Mine has for some time been so unproductive that it has been determined to discontinue the working … " |