Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 2 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 3 | ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars . |
| 4 | Since the 1970s fertility rates have dropped for all women in the UK irrespective of country of origin . |
| 5 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 6 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 7 | Yes my children do go to school now and have done for some months now . |
| 8 | Yes my children do go to school and have done for some months now . |
| 9 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 10 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 11 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 12 | It is invariably one whereby people have applied for those grants , they have gone through all the normal assessment criteria , which apply to any other art form , and if we feel that they adequately cover all those sort of areas then we respond , but as public body we have to be aware that groups , in applying to us , must fulfil the conditions that we lay down . |
| 13 | Large and small shellfish companies have applied for Several Orders , and they are being promoted for environmental and economic reasons by the industry body , the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers . |
| 14 | Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake . |
| 15 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 16 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 17 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 18 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 19 | The methods or ‘ media ’ they have used for these explorations have evolved over time — and have been aimed at an ever wider audience . |
| 20 | Police have appealed for any witnesses who may have been in the area in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 21 | It grew out of the teaching of stylistics to undergraduates at Lancaster , which and I have shared for several years . |
| 22 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 23 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 24 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 25 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 26 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 27 | The register holds details of 225,000 potential donors in Britain , including actresses Joanna Lumley and Pauline Collins , who have campaigned for more volunteers . |
| 28 | Since that date certain material implications have followed for those subgroups and school subjects promoting or representing the academic tradition . |
| 29 | ‘ There were totally unacceptably delays and quite recently the Boards lodged a full statement of claims with lawyers for McDonnell Douglas , They have asked for more details , and these have now been given . |
| 30 | I have asked for those figures , and apparently none exist . |