Example sentences of "[conj] [det] have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 2 | There is evidence for forest clearing 11000 years BP in Taiwan and of agriculture between 14000 and 8000 BP in Thailand , and New Guinea by 9000 BP , though tools much older than this have been claimed for the island ; rice was being grown in Sulawesi by 6000 BP . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 4 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 5 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 6 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 7 | The reason that brought that four hundred thousand pounds stems from the Tory revolt and the pressure by the group , the Tories , the rebellious ones , on the Government through our Chief Executive to fight our case , through a completely Sir Humphrey scenario , to get some more money and a better deal for west Oxfordshire , and that 's been achieve for some measure . |
| 8 | Cos that 's been shut for ages in n it ? |
| 9 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 10 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 11 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 14 | But all had been prepared for them . |
| 15 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 16 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 17 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 18 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |