Example sentences of "for having " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 2 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 3 | Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course . |
| 4 | He said , as this is a first offence you will not be sent down , instead , I fine you ten pounds for having a girl on the premises . |
| 5 | The report looks at the reasons for having a complaints procedure and discusses the principles of good practice for complaints and appeals procedures . |
| 6 | Dr Williams has also taken his campaign to the Kennel Club , and I feel he is in no small way responsible for having persuaded that eminent body to tighten up its act . |
| 7 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 8 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 9 | After all , he was later to applaud Hardy 's poetry for having precisely , ‘ the insides ’ . |
| 10 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 11 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 12 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 13 | The emotional complexity of the debate was deepened by the fact that neither side had the monopoly of logic or charm : Dr Colin Blakemore , though known as ‘ Dr Frankenstein' to the yellow press for having experimented on animals ’ eyes , seemed reasonable , persuasive and put-upon ; Douglas Hogg , MP , also on the vivisectionist side , was quite startlingly and pointlessly rude . |
| 14 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 15 | The most likely explanation for the recent record levels of libel awards is that juries have confused these two functions , and part of the blame must lie with judges for having failed adequately to explain to juries the purpose of their damages award . |
| 16 | Malcolm Conway Graham , 41 , a Kent residential social worker jailed for five years for having unlawful sex with two teenage girls in his care , was cleared in respect of one girl . |
| 17 | That could change on a technicality if , as seems likely , Aliysa is disqualified from first place in the Oaks for having traces of camphor in her system . |
| 18 | Some lawyers are typified as ‘ clever ’ , others as ‘ stupid ’ ; the former require one to be cautious , while the latter give greater opportunity for having the wool pulled over their eyes . |
| 19 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 20 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 21 | The Quartets are all the more impressive for having this political dimension worked into them , yet still subordinated beneath the religious scheme . |
| 22 | In 1989 the British economy was again at the wrong end of league tables for having relatively high levels of inflation , interest rates , and a trade gap . |
| 23 | The parliamentary leadership was usually assailed by the left for having failed to carry out socialist policies and having compromised with capitalism when in government . |
| 24 | By phrasing questions in different ways , inconsistencies are exposed without the need for having a detailed knowledge of a particular technique . |
| 25 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 26 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 27 | A car worker was yesterday ordered to pay almost £10,000 in fines and costs for having the world 's largest known illegal collection of birds ' eggs . |
| 28 | He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 29 | He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 30 | He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power . |