Example sentences of "have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 2 | The best description I have heard for this position is ‘ well plugged on ’ — a plug will not go into a socket if it is crooked , that is the baby should not be twisting his or her neck . |
| 3 | As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position , he was unsuccessful . |
| 4 | I have pressed for better freight links , which is another argument , but we must start with a reasonably fast passenger link to Europe . |
| 5 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 6 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |
| 7 | Workers at the Trustee Savings Bank have voted for selective strike action in a staffing dispute . |
| 8 | For a year , birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment . |
| 9 | I HAVE noticed for some time now that the Amnesty International Mandate has not been changed to include ‘ people imprisoned for their sexuality ’ . |
| 10 | All European Members would have liked to pay tribute to the splendid work that she and the Government have done for overseas development . |
| 11 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 12 | I have done for some time . ’ |
| 13 | It is recommended that we purchase from Action Computer Supplies , our usual printer supplier , who has the lowest price that I have seen for this printer at the moment . |
| 14 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 15 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 16 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 17 | Now , nobody er er , a at this stage at the er Financial Resources Committee er , challenge us on this figure , I think we will just stage of of doing arith arithmetic of adding it up , but no doubt that the staff will be comparing what going to be , er what within a but have prepared for next year with what we 're supposed to do this year and ours is an increase of another percent . |
| 18 | We have argued for greater competition in the gas industry than the Government have ever sought to provide . |
| 19 | Recently ethnolinguists , deriving their inspiration in England from the work of J. R. Firth and his disciples at SOAS ( The School of Oriental and African Studies ) , have also challenged ‘ universalism ’ and have argued for more attention to ‘ language-specific ’ descriptions before more general claims about language can be made , Fought , for instance , writing of attempts to analyse traditional Mexican languages , argues : |
| 20 | Three more schools at Abergele , Clwyd , Llanerfyl , Powys , and Caergeiliog , near Valley , Anglesey , have applied for such status . |
| 21 | [ Op ] I have begun the investigation of your claim along the lines that we discussed/I have applied for Legal Aid on your behalf . |
| 22 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 23 | ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’ |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools have applied for grant-maintained status . |
| 25 | figure is the highest level that we have granted for any riot expenditure , and could involve a sum of between £5 million and £7 million , depending on the claims . |
| 26 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 27 | By week 4 , you should be feeling quite well , perhaps better than you have felt for some time and , with any luck , you will be a good deal nearer to your target weight . |
| 28 | If a local authority misused the billions of pounds that the Government have misused for that purpose , it would be taken to the district auditors . |
| 29 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 30 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |