Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell has submitted for environmental approval a £1.5 billion plan to clean up its oil refinery at Pernis , near Rotterdam . |
| 2 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 3 | The latest study has gone for first-hand evidence , by looking at Inland Revenue figures for bequeathed estates , and by conducting a couple of sample surveys . |
| 4 | A COUNCIL poised to lose £1m in benefit aid has appealed for Parliamentary help . |
| 5 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 6 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 7 | A year later , he produced a second album , Fans , which did for — or unto — opera what Duck Rock had done for ethnic music . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools have applied for grant-maintained status . |
| 9 | I am delighted to say that , to date , 315 schools have opted for grant-maintained status . |
| 10 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 11 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 12 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 13 | The council has asked for nonperishable food and basic medicines to add to the convoy of aid soon to depart for Russia . |
| 14 | Such orders put into the shade the contracts British Telecom has placed for single-mode fibre . |
| 15 | Howard Schuman has adapted for Working Title Armisted Maupin 's TALES FROM THE CITY ( 1991 ) and written for Independents Birmingham , FUN AND DRAMA ; LIFE AND DREAMS . |
| 16 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 17 | Azerbaijan , Armenia , Byelarus , Moldova and Ukraine had applied for similar status . |
| 18 | The 1902 Act established a system of secondary education as the 1870 Act had done for elementary education , by filling the gaps in the existing provision with non-denominational state schools ( they were not free until 1944 ) . |
| 19 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 20 | Although the classification of countries in Table 8.1 suggests that a large majority of countries have opted for stable exchange rates , in fact this is not so ; those countries which are pegged to the US dollar will find their exchange rate moving against other currencies , because the US dollar itself is an independently floating currency . |
| 21 | No more representative body could be collected than that which at Milan has declared for oral teaching of the deaf — and nothing but oral teaching … |
| 22 | Tommy Sheridan , convener of Scottish Militant Labour , said sacked workers had asked for outside support at the picket line . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're too hot , ’ continued Jenny , lifting the coat Billie had placed for extra warmth on her bed . |
| 24 | Werewolf had opted for clear plastic goggles but he had already dispensed with them , tying them to his belt . |
| 25 | The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use . |
| 26 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 27 | He had used the police computer network and discovered his wife had volunteered for nursing duty . |
| 28 | Diro 's elevation was , it appeared , the price Namaliu had to pay for continued PAP support for his Pangu Pati-led coalition . |
| 29 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 30 | The former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has called for military intervention by NATO to end the fighting in Bosnia . |