Example sentences of "have [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position , he was unsuccessful . |
| 3 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For a year , birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment . |
| 6 | I HAVE noticed for some time now that the Amnesty International Mandate has not been changed to include ‘ people imprisoned for their sexuality ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I have done for some time . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 11 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 12 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | Three more schools at Abergele , Clwyd , Llanerfyl , Powys , and Caergeiliog , near Valley , Anglesey , have applied for such status . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 9.15.2 any notice or document shall also be sufficiently served on a party if served on solicitors who have acted for that party in relation to this Lease or the Premises at any time within the year preceding the service of the notice or document |
| 22 | Lawyers , politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace . |
| 23 | Despite a slight shortage of new ideas , she remains the strongest candidate the Democrats have fielded for some time . |
| 24 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
| 25 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 26 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 27 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 28 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 29 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 30 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |