Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |
| 2 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 3 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 4 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 5 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 6 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 7 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 8 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 9 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 10 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 11 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 12 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 13 | Explaining , now , more of the past history of Samavia , Lorestan reveals that the Lost Prince has been found , the time has come for the corrupt government to be overthrown and the message must be carried through Europe that ‘ the lamp is lighted ’ . |
| 14 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 15 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 16 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 17 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 18 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 19 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 20 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 21 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 22 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |
| 23 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 24 | Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas . |
| 25 | An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines . |
| 26 | On December 29th Richard Gephardt , majority leader in the House , said that if the president waged war without a congressional resolution , ‘ Congress has to reach for the only tool left to it , which is to cut off the funding of the war . ’ |
| 27 | Having considered the potential benefits of offering discounts for full payment of Council Tax the Council has decided for the first year that it is not beneficial and that therefore no discounts will be offered for full payment . |
| 28 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 29 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 30 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |