Example sentences of "have [verb] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group . |
| 2 | The demand for health care has risen for many reasons . |
| 3 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 4 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 5 | But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years . |
| 6 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |
| 7 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 8 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 9 | discussing the prospects of university cricket at that time wrote : ‘ The young Australian S. M. J. Woods , the present captain , is far and away the best fast bowler Cambridge has had for many years . |
| 10 | Again , that is not a haphazard system , but one which our legislation has recognised for many years under successive Governments . |
| 11 | The Council has recognised for many years the intimate connection between economic performance and educational attainment . |
| 12 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |
| 13 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 14 | Leonard Brandwood has worked for many decades on the chronology of Plato 's dialogues . |
| 15 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 16 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 17 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 18 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 19 | The same arrangement has existed for many years with the USAF 's 170 F-111 bomber aircraft which fly from Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire and Lakenheath in Suffolk . |
| 20 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 21 | I have rarely seen the House so unanimous in warmth and affection , and especially in its understanding of the severe ordeal that one of our colleagues and his family have had to endure for many months . |
| 22 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 23 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 24 | ‘ For this wedding he would have to save for many years . |
| 25 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 26 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 27 | Ten years later , Iran had occupied the three Gulf islands belonging to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah , having maintained for many years a claim to Bahrain ( although this was dropped in 1970 ) . |
| 28 | There was a time when parents had a repertoire of such material ‘ in their heads ’ , but the oral handing down seems to have failed for many people . |
| 29 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 30 | We all knew Froggy , a caddie who had worked the circuit since the late fifties and had carried for many winners , including a couple of Open Champions — American , of course — in the mid-seventies . |