Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have asked for a full investigation . |
| 2 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 3 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 4 | We have argued for a revised theory of the relations between state and people : one reflecting the role of states in managing social relations and moral careers but one which recognises too that states , in representing a general or ‘ national ’ interest , have an important emotional significance . |
| 5 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 6 | We have opted for a single 19″ Triton fluorescent tube in this 2′ tank . |
| 7 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 8 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |