Example sentences of "for have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 2 | Another added : ‘ Now what the politicians have always called for has happened , we must rise to the occasion . ’ |
| 3 | For some people this process begins some time before the person they grieve for has died . |
| 4 | Ask for medical advice or treatment if someone you care for has severe constipation . |
| 5 | The ambitious eightfold gain that Europe is aiming for has proved equally elusive . |
| 6 | What made this interesting is that the company I work for has considerable knowledge in this area . |
| 7 | WordPerfect for has many powerful macro commands , including the ability to read and make use of system information . |
| 8 | The old school atlas we came for has been thrown away |
| 9 | It is therefore no legal answer to the ejectment to say that the contingency provided for has not happened . |
| 10 | For has n't this war been of immense gain to Bush and Major ? |
| 11 | According to this argument , the theory we are looking for has got to be the kind of theory that seems implausible to our limited , Earth-bound , decade-bound imaginations . |
| 12 | The question whether that is what the buyer bargained for has to be answered according to such tests as men in the market would apply , leaving more delicate questions of condition , or quality , to be determined under other clauses of the contract or sections of the Act . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm willing to quit a lucrative job in the City for a voyage of discovery in another direction , but only if the set-up I 'm quitting for has an even chance of staying afloat for the voyage . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Adamson said : ‘ The man this letter is meant for has no connection with my family . |
| 15 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 16 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |
| 17 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 18 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 19 | Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course . |
| 20 | He said , as this is a first offence you will not be sent down , instead , I fine you ten pounds for having a girl on the premises . |
| 21 | The report looks at the reasons for having a complaints procedure and discusses the principles of good practice for complaints and appeals procedures . |
| 22 | Dr Williams has also taken his campaign to the Kennel Club , and I feel he is in no small way responsible for having persuaded that eminent body to tighten up its act . |
| 23 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 24 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 25 | After all , he was later to applaud Hardy 's poetry for having precisely , ‘ the insides ’ . |
| 26 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 27 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 28 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 29 | The emotional complexity of the debate was deepened by the fact that neither side had the monopoly of logic or charm : Dr Colin Blakemore , though known as ‘ Dr Frankenstein' to the yellow press for having experimented on animals ’ eyes , seemed reasonable , persuasive and put-upon ; Douglas Hogg , MP , also on the vivisectionist side , was quite startlingly and pointlessly rude . |
| 30 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |