Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Socialist group in the European parliament has called for the EC to set more ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 3 | When he left for Canada six years earlier , Northern Ireland had the lowest crime rate in the United Kingdom and no political violence had occurred for a number of years . |
| 4 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 5 | She is unable to gauge his mood , her feminine antennae have folded for the night . |
| 6 | Speakers at a rally this afternoon have called for the release of hundreds of prisoners they claim are innocent . |
| 7 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 8 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 9 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 10 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 11 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
| 12 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 13 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 14 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 15 | Giry 's models were the volumes of Jahrbucher ( year-books ) which German scholars had produced for the reigns of other Carolingians : strictly chronological accounts conceived quite literally as annals . |
| 16 | Some players have remained for the northern winter in England , France or Italy , to pursue the loose change of world rugby . |
| 17 | Only Simon Woods of the league 's five top players has qualified for the semi-finals at Witham tomorrow ( 7.15 ) . |
| 18 | The British government has applied for a one-year exemption from European Community environmental legislation requiring all new cars to be fitted with catalytic converters from 1 January 1993 . |
| 19 | It came on 14 July , a day on which the French Ambassador had asked for an audience with King William , who was taking the waters at the spa town of Ems , and had been twice refused , courteously but firmly . |
| 20 | Twenty leading British scientists have called for a change in Government to reverse what they call a dramatic decline in the standard of British scientific research . |
| 21 | This servant had asked for a physic as his mistress was unwell . |
| 22 | An international scientific expedition has called for a 10-year moratorium on the extension of oil and gas production to a huge area of north-west Siberia to allow time for urgent research into its forests , peat bogs and tundra . |
| 23 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 24 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 25 | Some European countries have opted for a more acceptable solution in the form of " right to reply " legislation , which allows judges or " ombudsmen " to direct newspapers to publish corrections and counter-statements from those who claim to have been misrepresented . |
| 26 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 27 | Similar work has begun for the west Birmingham and south central Leeds areas . |
| 28 | In Guatemala , a beautiful country with a superficial air of tranquillity , the civil war has lasted for the past 30 years . |
| 29 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 30 | Certainly there is an abundance of examples in history to illustrate that failure to redress genuine grievance in its early stages has called for a very heavy price indeed later on . |