Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 2 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 3 | IUPAC has made available for public review draft recommendations for nomenclature of regular double-strand ( ladder and spiro ) organic polymers . |
| 4 | Access to Microsoft 's technology , which Insignia has had in-house for some time , is expected to make SoftPC run MS-DOS and Windows programs at near native performance probably by the end of the year . |
| 5 | Access to Microsoft 's technology , which Insignia has had in-house for some time , is expected to make SoftPC run MS-DOS and Windows programs at near native performance probably by the end of the year . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 7 | In recent years , there has become available for developing countries robust new evidence which suggests that , by altering nuptiality and fertility patterns , individuals can reduce the mortality and improve the health of their young children and that childbearing women can enjoy better health from puberty to menopause . |
| 8 | The estate , which has become notorious for high speed races involving stolen cars , and recently attacks on police officers , means that they er will sending increasing numbers of police there . |
| 9 | Secondly , Continuing Professional Development has become mandatory for all members qualifying since January 1981 and , thirdly , the Institution has now embarked on the process of shedding its own Part I examinations — a logical conclusion to the trends . |
| 10 | Once a person has become unemployed for any length of time , the chances are that he or she will continue to be unemployed . |
| 11 | The second , printed on the reverse of the first , is a Certificate either that service was effected on a stated date or that service has proved impossible for stated reasons ; the Certificate will be tendered in proof of service in any proceedings in the state of origin , and the law of that state will determine whether its contents can be challenged or whether the absence or incomplete nature of the Certificate is fatal . |
| 12 | The new tools are a Centre Finder with 0 to 2in capacity ( price £5.64 ) ; a Luthiers Clamp , which has proved ideal for lightweight edge clamping ( price £6.58 ) ; and a Featherweight Parallel-clamp , of 0 to 1½in capacity , which is a development of the traditional toolmakers ' clamp ( price £6.58 ) . |
| 13 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 14 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 15 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now , ’ his distraught mother said . |
| 17 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 18 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 19 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 20 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 21 | One city of a million people , Ufa , 700 miles east of Moscow , was described in Pravda in 1987 as having become unfit for human habitation . |
| 22 | While this might have proved acceptable for itinerant traders , to most local people it would have been unattractive and most would have preferred to be home by nightfall or soon after . |
| 23 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 24 | The agencies will have to have available for public scrutiny a register giving details of consents granted and results of effluent samples . |
| 25 | The flats will have to stay empty for several weeks |
| 26 | The school occupied Trench Hall , a stately home which , having stood vacant for seven years , showed all the obvious signs of neglect . |
| 27 | Having stood empty for many years , 1987/88 saw the start of considerable renovations and rebuilding . |
| 28 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 29 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 30 | I had felt ill for several months . |