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

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1 Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions … and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new .
2 So in addition to considering the advantages the system has for employers , we need also to examine how state policies continue to support a segmented labour market .
3 The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before .
4 ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’
5 Britain 's withdrawal from India or France 's loss of Algeria , painful though they were , were easy in comparison with the profound political and psychological implications that Ukrainian independence has for Russians .
6 To be more specific , justification for the Reed Elsevier merger lies to a significant extent in the enlarged scope that the merged group has for acquisitions .
7 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 .
8 The British Theatre Association , mentioned in the first edition of this book , has for decades offered professional and all-embracing training courses for actors , directors , and young people .
9 Daniel Yergin 's recent book ‘ The Prize ’ shows that oil has for decades been cosseted with tax breaks and government subsidies .
10 Apart from propping up the Senate , Bonn has for decades provided lavish incentives for business and individuals to stay in , or move to , west Berlin .
11 often regardless of the ground to be covered , has for decades been the equivalent of an hour a day .
12 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 .
13 Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff :
14 In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self .
15 ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills .
16 Tonks has for months been juggling the possibility of an All Black tour to South Africa next year — something close to his heart — but was aware that the continuing divisions between the rugby groups in the Republic made such a tour impossible .
17 And as crime figures soar , Labour has for months poured scorn on the Tory claim to be the party of law and order .
18 None the less , I shall have to cut back on public expenditure , which has for years been outgrowing our capacity to pay for it .
19 It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
20 Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date .
21 In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats .
22 In a market where the high street banks ' advertising has for years been devoted to trying to humanize an essentially depressing sub-retail experience , the campaign was , to say the least , refreshingly different .
23 Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed .
24 I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years .
25 Yet this same champion of free speech has for years refused to hold a press conference after matches .
26 The Thai Tobacco Monopoly ( TTM ) is owned by the Ministry of Finance and has for years excluded foreign brands .
27 Britain has for years spent more , per capita , on defence than any other European nation .
28 With their enemies confined to their bases , it must have seemed worth trying to contact the men from the UN , which has for years backed SWAPO .
29 The Bishop Auckland line which has for years been the subject of closure fears will get a better pattern of morning services .
30 THE Meadows Orchestra has for years had an excellent reputation for presenting interesting programmes at a very high level of performance .
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