Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 2 | Although the results achieved by the Leeds adjournment system appeared to favour its widespread adoption , this has not happened , although adjournment has been pressed for in some parts of the country — for example , in South Wales — and has been regarded as useful in certain cases by many authorities . |
| 3 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 4 | There are no balance sheets because there are no assets or liabilities in the books : sales are only recognized when cash is received ( so there are no debtors ) ; purchases are only recognized when cash is paid ( so there are no creditors ) ; there are no stock adjustments because the accounts are not concerned with recording usage , only with the fact that cash has been paid for purchases ( so there is no closing stock figure ) ; there are no fixed assets , for the same reason . |
| 5 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 6 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 7 | Although homoeopathy has been practised for nearly two hundred years in many countries of the world , very little work has been performed in the way of well-conducted clinical trials to prove and assess its efficacy . |
| 8 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 9 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 10 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 11 | An integral part of the development will be the reorganisation of the University 's associated library holdings , and funding has been obtained for the institute 's library . |
| 12 | Local lawyers , police and judiciary have been primed for the test case by a series of seminars organised in conjunction with BSA Europe . |
| 13 | Lift and drag have been calculated for tails spread to an apical angle of 120° . |
| 14 | Or alternatively if cash has been allocated for a later purchase of , say , an expected new issue of bonds and the fear is of prices rising , an investor can hedge by buying a future or by acquiring a call option . |
| 15 | In order to avoid the boxes being opened in transit the label should state that sufficient food and water has been provided for the journey . |
| 16 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 17 | Where , in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves ' search for novelty gets them into trouble , other new ventures meet with approval , like Emma 's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table , as in Fig. 7b , in place of the smaller portable Pembroke ( Fig. 41a ) on to which her father 's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years . |
| 18 | This is primarily due to process integration — eg filtration and drying have been combined for the first time in the Pergascript operation . |
| 19 | The difference is that the copy has been supplied by a PRO and the photography and space have been paid for by that PRO 's company or organisation . |
| 20 | Electric lighting and heating have been installed for the first time , but all fittings have been concealed as much as possible and all the original oil lamps and 19th century pews have been retained . |
| 21 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 22 | Sec. and helpers were thanked for their efforts in getting the museum started , and application has been made for membership of the Association of Independent Museums . |
| 23 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 24 | The association between HIV infection and tuberculosis has been recognised for some time , and the emergence of multidrug resistance in the United States represents the latest development . |
| 25 | The results for the current ( ie interim ) period are prepared on a comparable basis to historical data and show clearly where if any seasonal or other irregular fluctuations income and expenditure have been adjusted for . |
| 26 | At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities . |
| 27 | Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative . |
| 28 | The hive-up of the business will be a transfer of a going concern for VAT purposes provided , in the case of reversionary interests in property and property used for the purposes of the business , the procedure in para 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 is adhered to ( see 5.1.3 above ) ; alternatively , if Newco and Target have been grouped for VAT purposes under s29 VAT Act 1983 , the hive-up of the business will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor of services . |
| 29 | Because devaluation has been postponed for so long , the shock to living standards would rattle many civil servants ( though export-oriented farmers would be better off ) . |
| 30 | The problem in all such charity-backed schemes is that , whereas cash has been raised for buildings and equipment , somebody is going to have to fund the day-to-day running and staffing . |