Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 2 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 3 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 4 | Keegan said : ‘ A lot of people appreciate what Mick has done for this club . |
| 5 | Such orders put into the shade the contracts British Telecom has placed for single-mode fibre . |
| 6 | Howard Schuman has adapted for Working Title Armisted Maupin 's TALES FROM THE CITY ( 1991 ) and written for Independents Birmingham , FUN AND DRAMA ; LIFE AND DREAMS . |
| 7 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 8 | Azerbaijan , Armenia , Byelarus , Moldova and Ukraine had applied for similar status . |
| 9 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 10 | No more representative body could be collected than that which at Milan has declared for oral teaching of the deaf — and nothing but oral teaching … |
| 11 | ‘ You 're too hot , ’ continued Jenny , lifting the coat Billie had placed for extra warmth on her bed . |
| 12 | Werewolf had opted for clear plastic goggles but he had already dispensed with them , tying them to his belt . |
| 13 | The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use . |
| 14 | One of the men Stephen had taken for another policeman in plain clothes came closer , looked at the girl 's open blue eyes . |
| 15 | In that year R. Etheridge jun. was appointed to deal with such matters in Scotland because A. Geikie had asked for speedier service in this field . |
| 16 | How we need to pray that for each new church planted there will be those who understand this need and whom God has gifted for this task : to let the scriptures speak , and through the scriptures to let Jesus speak . |
| 17 | Yes , Bruno has fought for two world titles . |
| 18 | Within geology , Craig has argued for stricter refereeing , more interventionist editing , and the publication of shorter papers . |
| 19 | The former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has called for military intervention by NATO to end the fighting in Bosnia . |
| 20 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 21 | It was important to make available the hidden resources in nature that God had created for suffering humanity . |
| 22 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 23 | But Jones has asked for another week and FA spokesman David Bloomfield said : ‘ We have acceded to his request . ’ |
| 24 | Fedorov had suspected for some time , and now he knew . |
| 25 | Kate had asked for another day of leave to try and get her family affairs sorted out . |
| 26 | The NRA has applied for discretionary rate relief but Mr Clark is urging councillors to refuse . |
| 27 | The NRA has applied for discretionary rate relief but Mr Clark is opposing the plan . |
| 28 | ‘ Francis has allowed for joint occupancy . ’ |
| 29 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |
| 30 | Accordingly , much of Volume I of the Critique is taken up with the attempt to prove the dialectic a priori as the universal method and the law of anthropology , superseding that which Kant had provided for analytical reason . |