Example sentences of "to have [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 2 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 3 | ‘ Value billing ’ should , in theory , be a consequence of the value-added auditing service that most firms claim to have offered for several years . |
| 4 | he ought to have stayed for several days . |
| 5 | ‘ I am fortunate to have played for two clubs with passionate fans . |
| 6 | He is said to have served for twenty-five years as rector of the cathedral fabric fund and is undoubtedly found in association with the cathedral 's masons and workshops . |
| 7 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 8 | The law granted Estonian citizenship automatically to all Estonians ; immigrants applying for citizenship would be required to have lived for two years in the country . |
| 9 | Excitement indeed ! and it even caught up a sober and spiritually distanced Quaker who could not " find words sufficient to draw it in colours strong enough " but has left a useful description of a phenomenon which seems to have lasted for several weeks , " when the great noise subsided , but the fire still existed " . |