Example sentences of "[adv] for having " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 2 | He could not thank Mr Yarrow enough for having introduced him . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I care very much for having a foreigner telling the White House , the Pentagon and the FBI how to run their business . ’ |
| 4 | Basically an unremarkable set of Regency terrace houses , it was notable only for having 350 windows . |
| 5 | This means at least 70 per cent of people attending fertility clinics will feel they are failures — not only for having to attend the clinic , but also for not having succeeded with treatment ; they may also feel they have failed the clinic and the doctor , as well as themselves , their partners and families . |
| 6 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 7 | Being unchanged myself , except perhaps for having grown slightly fatter , and even keener on comfort , I say no reason to change that policy when writing for Harpers & Queen . |
| 8 | I 'm all for having the ball in play as often as possible . |
| 9 | Well I 'm concerned Geoff as a Ward Councillor I read about this in the paper that the Environment Committee which David is on er agreed to this scheme which is I 'm all for having squares in the city centre and places for people to sit and enjoy and I 'm ambivalent about the leaf stem . |
| 10 | We talked continuously , ranging over many topics , and laughed a lot and I was mentally hugging myself merely for having the good luck to be with such a friendly , amusing and vital girl . |
| 11 | IN ENGLAND ‘ Chuck ’ Fleetwood-Smith is probably remembered , if at all , merely for having twisted down 87 overs and taken only Hammond 's wicket for 298 runs when England scored 903 for 7 at The oval in 1938 . |
| 12 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 14 | He adds that the MacSharry approach would penalise efficiency and preserve allotment-sized farms , and that farmers should receive grants for doing desirable things , not just for having small plots . |
| 15 | Before the first world war , and even after it , the rich were notable not just for having money but for having the leisure to enjoy it . |
| 16 | I envied you that day the way I 'd never envied any other man ; just for having her beside you . |
| 17 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 18 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 19 | A DEAF grandmother is being kicked out of a charity home for having her TV and radio on too loud . |
| 20 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 21 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 22 | Thank you both for having us . |
| 23 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 24 | No , I do n't think so , you 'll probably get , get had up for having a erm brothel |
| 25 | Both girls quickly turned their faces away , just in case he would want to take revenge on them later for having witnessed his humiliation . |
| 26 | Here the ‘ tune ’ is not merely a luxuriating tonal resolution in the relative major , but a radiant affirmation that the struggle is over ( not for long admittedly ) , and that we have all gained immeasurably for having experienced it . |
| 27 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 28 | A few days earlier Ouedraogo had been dismissed as secretary-general of the Organization for People 's Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP — MT ) , the dominant grouping within the Front , reportedly for having displayed " serious failures of principle and party policy " . |
| 29 | She owed that to him at least for having been , over the years , such a disappointment to her father . |
| 30 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |