Example sentences of "[noun sg] have for " in BNC.

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1 Faris ( 1968 ) , exploring the way such symbols come to represent complex conceptual domains , coined the phrase ‘ symbols of high meaning capacity ’ , which exactly fits the structural significance hair has for police ideology .
2 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 .
3 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
4 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
5 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 ?
6 As you suggested , I have set down what significance I think this experience has for me .
7 To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public .
8 We consider below the implications this result has for policy , and in chapter 6 we show how it can serve as the basis for an empirical test of the model .
9 And as crime figures soar , Labour has for months poured scorn on the Tory claim to be the party of law and order .
10 While Labour needs to think hard about a coherent and realistic policy , to give substance to what is otherwise simply a slogan , there were signs in Inverness of regeneration — and a recognition that Labour has for too long taken its political dominance in Scotland for granted .
11 The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money .
12 Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections .
13 The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools .
14 ‘ Shake ’ could be taken as the fear the poet has for the ‘ cold ’ of oncoming death and ‘ ruined ’ illuminates the idea of deterioration .
15 He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents .
16 Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use .
17 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 .
18 The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 .
19 Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety .
20 The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence .
21 While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it .
22 Even so , initially , with the formation of a new Anti-Slavery Society in 1823 ( the African Institution had for years primarily acted on the international slave trade ) , there was no major break in abolitionist ideological assumptions .
23 Though much of the 48-minute speech was devoted to outlining policies Labour had for Britain and the wider world , it was his attacks on Mr Major that set the Blackpool Labour Conference alight .
24 Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat .
25 The England football management has for years moaned that there are no longer any easy matches , and England 's cricketers learned this salutary lesson against Sri Lanka .
26 In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies .
27 He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ .
28 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 .
29 Obviously , if all security interests were possessory it would make secured borrowing virtually impossible as a debtor would be deprived of the ability to use the assets subject to the security in the course of business ( but English law has for long recognised non-possessory security interests ) .
30 This daily parade assumed for the bagnini something of the significance that the Changing of the Guard has for London 's tourist guides .
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