Example sentences of "have for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predominance these spatial constructs have for the ordinary constable is essential to an understanding of the police mind . |
| 2 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 3 | We should shortly know who the new owners of Showerings are and what plans they have for the company . |
| 4 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 5 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 6 | - Margaret Thatcher ‘ I would ask you to reserve any demonstration of support and affection which I know we all have for her until the end of her address . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Marx 's ideas about Russia have for obvious reasons been discussed extensively , but this has significance for Marx 's anthropology in two ways . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | What news will Chancellor Norman Lamont have for the motorist when he rises in the House of Commons next Tuesday to deliver his budget speech ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 12 | British runners have for years plundered the prizes on the Continent most weekends of the winter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 15 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 16 | The only hope we have for intervention in pop is as a visitation , a bolt of strangeness , something whose point is to be undecodable . |
| 17 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
| 18 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Against the background of this account of perception as something indirect , with ideas figuring as intermediaries between our minds and material things , Malebranche discusses what reason we have for our usual supposition that the material world exists at all . |
| 21 | Sculptures in white marble from the Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome have for centuries delighted and inspired the ordinary observer as well as other sculptors , painters , architects and art historians ( fig. 6.7 ) . |
| 22 | Esau protests that he has no need of Jacob 's gifts : ‘ I have enough , my brother ; keep what you have for yourself . ’ |
| 23 | In addition rituals and procedures are laid down for those who have for a variety of reasons become ‘ unclean ’ , and so have become cut off from the rest of the community . |
| 24 | I have for myself come to the conclusion that owing to the conditions which exist in the world today , having regard to the economic environment , having regard to the situation of our country , if we go on pattering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time , and I have come to the conclusion that the only way of fighting this subject is by protecting the home markets . |
| 25 | I get bored easily , so the only plan I have for the future is not to get comfortable with any one thing . ’ |
| 26 | It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings . |
| 27 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 28 | Ability with sound systems only comes with practice and the more you learn about sound , the more respect you have for it . |
| 29 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 30 | I think the piano is something you have for life . |