Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell has submitted for environmental approval a £1.5 billion plan to clean up its oil refinery at Pernis , near Rotterdam . |
| 2 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 3 | The latest study has gone for first-hand evidence , by looking at Inland Revenue figures for bequeathed estates , and by conducting a couple of sample surveys . |
| 4 | A COUNCIL poised to lose £1m in benefit aid has appealed for Parliamentary help . |
| 5 | A year later , he produced a second album , Fans , which did for — or unto — opera what Duck Rock had done for ethnic music . |
| 6 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 7 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 8 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 9 | The council has asked for nonperishable food and basic medicines to add to the convoy of aid soon to depart for Russia . |
| 10 | The 1902 Act established a system of secondary education as the 1870 Act had done for elementary education , by filling the gaps in the existing provision with non-denominational state schools ( they were not free until 1944 ) . |
| 11 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 12 | He had used the police computer network and discovered his wife had volunteered for nursing duty . |
| 13 | Diro 's elevation was , it appeared , the price Namaliu had to pay for continued PAP support for his Pangu Pati-led coalition . |
| 14 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 15 | All European Members would have liked to pay tribute to the splendid work that she and the Government have done for overseas development . |
| 16 | Ekstrom has played for Italian club Empoli , Bayern Munich and French club Cannes during his career . |
| 17 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 18 | AN MP has called for improved security at a school following a spate of vandalism . |
| 19 | An MP has called for judicial thrashing and the return of the stocks to combat juvenile crime . |
| 20 | As published in the newspaper Borba on Dec. 15 , 1989 , this document announced that " the end has come for authoritarian socialism " and stated that the LCY supported freedom of assembly and speech and all other civil liberties " regardless of political convictions " . |
| 21 | Defence Minister Ali Hasan al-Majid had called for mass mobilization on Sept. 1 " to foil enemy schemes " , and there were unconfirmed reports that Majid had established headquarters in Basra after being ordered by Saddam to take over control of all military operations against Shia rebels in the south . |
| 22 | Workers at the Trustee Savings Bank have voted for selective strike action in a staffing dispute . |
| 23 | In early 81 , it tried to do for Oi what the New Musical Express had done for early punk , acting as midwife , prefect and publicist for a grassroots rock movement with political overtones . |
| 24 | SHELTER has called for urgent legislation to protect people buying their homes on ‘ rental purchase ’ — a form of credit . |
| 25 | The ITC made the determination and it would be inappropriate for me to comment upon the matter , especially as I believe that it is now sub judice , because the company has applied for judicial review . |
| 26 | It was the sort of price any commander had to pay for hoped-for victory . |
| 27 | The DNSF did win the vote , however , on simultaneous legislative and presidential elections , whereas Petre Roman 's rival National Salvation Front had called for separate election dates . |