Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 2 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 3 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 4 | Dr Berry will be succeeded as BNFL Director of Health and Safety by his deputy , Mr David Coulston , who has worked for the company on related matters for more than 20 years . |
| 5 | The indoor championship was the latest in a string of honours for the 28-year-old who has worked for the UK Courtaulds company for seven years . |
| 6 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
| 7 | The inspector , 44 , who has worked for the Princess for eight years , is currently on sick leave . |
| 8 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 9 | A PENSIONER who has worked for the community for many years has had his efforts officially recognised . |
| 10 | Miss Wilson , who has worked for the auctioneers for 25 years , suspected it was worth more than its modest £1,200 estimate . |
| 11 | Robert , who has worked for the Group for 34 years , will leave at the end of March . |
| 12 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 13 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 14 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 15 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 16 | More significantly the direction of change was viewed suspiciously by young intellectuals who had hoped for the realisation of the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 17 | Joshua , who had made for the exit in search of a cup of tea , noticed Edwina Currie standing by the door . |
| 18 | He it was who had pressed for the creation of Christ Church parish , and he became its first incumbent ; Benjamin and Elizabeth had the singular distinction of having him officiate at their marriage — poor surroundings , then , but in the presence of a minister of great reputation . |
| 19 | We began to take men who had volunteered for the guards , but who had been found by senior Service Medical Officers to be suffering from tuberculosis . |
| 20 | His appointment on a two-year contract will disappoint David Hobbs , the caretaker who had applied for the job on a permanent basis , but Chris Caisley , the Odsal chairman , hinted yesterday that patience might bring a reward for the Northern captain . |
| 21 | Dr Joseph Wybran , the head of the Belgian Auschwitz Committee , who had campaigned for the removal of an order of Carmelite nuns from a convent just outside the perimeter of the former Birkenau extermination camp , was shot in the head outside Brussels University Hospital on Wednesday . |
| 22 | The intention of the environmentalists who had campaigned for the referendums was to make it necessary for parliament to pass new legislation , since this would give them the opportunity to press their demands for much stricter controls . |
| 23 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 24 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 25 | Cracks were revealed in some French-manufactured pressure vessels and other parts for PWRs in 1979 and their dangers were publicized by an engineer , Shoja Etemad , who had worked for the company Framatome . |
| 26 | He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA . |
| 27 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 28 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 29 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 30 | TED 'S POSITION as eighth alternate meant that eight men who had qualified for the heats would have to drop out before he was summoned . |