Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 This has created more food for everybody and , therefore , created more food that is available to feed animals .
2 This has had important consequences for the rehabilitation of mental hospital patients , which will be discussed in the context of the empirical study reported in Chapters 3 , 4 and 5 .
3 Of the 41 Local Authority libraries that replied , 24 had automated or were considering automation ; the majority had implemented automation of accessions , cataloguing and circulation , but only 2 had introduced automated systems for ILL .
4 Some have formulated flat-rate charges for certain services and many continue to do so .
5 Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton .
6 The British have imported Dutch cattle for at least three centuries ( references go back to 1681 ) and initially they formed the basis of the famous Shorthorns .
7 ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me .
8 Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance .
9 ‘ The world has become very graphical , ’ says Mr Ingram. ‘ 1-2-3 has had graphical capabilities for a couple of years with the WYSIWYG capabilities .
10 The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb .
11 Throughout the year we have all had to pay huge amounts for advertising and for fees to PR firms and City advisers .
12 But why why should we all have to pay more money for water ?
13 All patients were volunteers and all had had previous vagotomy for benign duodenal ulcer disease .
14 Out of the thirteen which still had a formal Railfreight allocation in 1989 , many had become specialised bases for traction belonging to a particular sub-sector .
15 Lloyd George , President of the Board of Trade from 1906 to 1908 had shown much sympathy for trade unions faced by intransigent employers ; his immediate successor , Winston Churchill , was more ambivalent but , even Tillett conceded , " patient , courteous and at pains to try to resolve problems " .
16 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
17 Nintendo Co Ltd has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 2% to the equivalent of $750.9m on turnover that climbed 13% to $5,471m .
18 Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 13% at the equivalent of $832.2m on turnover that rose 18% to $2,801m .
19 Last summer , when the Sainsbury Wing was being dedicated at the National Gallery , Lord Sainsbury said in his speech that , while he was very happy to have provided that money for the Wing , he really thought the government should have paid for it .
20 The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford .
21 Leeds United had waited 18 years for success following their domination of English football in the early 1970s .
22 No I should n't think the Chinese have got much time for that sort of approach to life .
23 Two limitations in particular have driven young readers for many decades to prefer adult adventure stories to those written specifically for them or at least to find more satisfaction in junior tales with adult heroes .
24 The last two had become prominent spokesmen for the families during the ten days since the removal of the children .
25 These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from .
26 Informix Software Inc has unveiled technical specifications for its next generation multithreaded and databases , OnLine 6.0 and OnLine 7.0 , which have been optimised for massively parallel processing systems .
27 Acer Inc has reported net profit for 1992 equivalent to $2.2m against a loss last time of $23.5m , on turnover off 2.7% at $473.3m ; no per share figures .
28 Scientific Software International Inc has reported net profit for the year to December 31 up 27.7% at $1.4m , on turnover that rose 16.8% to $29.2m .
29 Comverse Technology Inc has reported net profits for the year to December 31 up 99.4% to $4.9m , on turnover that rose 75.2% at $38.4m .
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