Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also believe that Labour authorities have for too long abused their position as chief low-cost housing providers allowing bureaucracy and waste to mushroom at the expense of tenants . |
| 2 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 3 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 4 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 5 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 6 | The norm for the duration of commercial leases has for many years been twenty-five years . |
| 7 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 8 | Bem ( 1979a ) suggests that paying more attention to the patterns of scoring on BSRl femininity and masculinity subscales might produce a more detailed understanding of the power which particular sex-associated traits have for women and men . |
| 9 | Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia . |
| 10 | British runners have for years plundered the prizes on the Continent most weekends of the winter . |
| 11 | If we now enquire into what exactly the acquisition of a fully upright posture and all its attendant psychological advantages had for our hominid ancestors I think that we are now in a position to give a fairly specific and detailed answer . |
| 12 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 13 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 14 | There was no fierce detestation of it such as loyalist unionists had for Faulknerite unionists or Sinn Féin republicans for SDLP republicans . |
| 15 | When we talk of capitalism , we are concerned with a system which is based upon the need for what Weber calls ‘ forever renewed profit ’ through the selling of the worker 's labour power to the property-owning employer , and the consequences these socio-economic relationships have for the family . |
| 16 | Some European and Middle Eastern countries have for many years responded to the resultant labour shortages by " importing " immigrant labour to perform relatively menial and unskilled tasks . |
| 17 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 18 | The subject of dependent nomic conditionals has for long been a disputed one , and part of larger disputed subjects , those of larger categories of " if " statements and of " if " statements generally . |
| 19 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 20 | Political scientists have for some time tried to grapple with the question : what difference , if any , does party control of the government make to political outputs ? |
| 21 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 22 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |
| 23 | ‘ Even a cursory glance at the island of Ireland 's relationship with the EC since 1973 confirms that Britain has not pursued Northern Ireland 's interests anything like the extent which Irish Governments have for the 26 counties , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Though barely habitable by man , the polar regions have for generations yielded goods that are valued by man . |
| 25 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 26 | At the same time , American anthropologists are acutely aware , to the point of self-caricature , that the North American Indians have for generations provided a conveniently accessible exotic backyard for ethnographic research . |
| 27 | California will allow out-of-state banks to enter its market from this year , so its big banks have for several years sought to concentrate on growing bigger in the local retail market through buying smaller banks and thrifts . |
| 28 | The predominance these spatial constructs have for the ordinary constable is essential to an understanding of the police mind . |
| 29 | The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself . |
| 30 | ‘ Latest statistics reveal a considerable improvement in the number of 16-year-old pupils who leave school with some qualifications : the plight of low achievers had for long been a matter of concern , ’ it said . |