Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 2 | If one subtracts the vote of this vulnerable group from the remaining 76 per cent , this means that they have to live with the knowledge that more than one in four of voting co-residents have voted for a party that is rabidly hostile to them . |
| 3 | Councillors have called for a report on a perks package which eases the burden of moving home . |
| 4 | This is followed by a brief outline of the continental legal system to which critics have turned for a solution to our problems . |
| 5 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 6 | ‘ Members have voted for a change of leader . |
| 7 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 8 | Twenty leading British scientists have called for a change in Government to reverse what they call a dramatic decline in the standard of British scientific research . |
| 9 | Its the first time the two men have met for a week and the outcome is that |
| 10 | Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead . |
| 11 | Creditors have applied for a court order to take over and sell the building . |
| 12 | Creditors have applied for a court order to take over and sell the building . |
| 13 | Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan . |
| 14 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature and other conservation groups have called for a simplification of this network . |
| 15 | Two German consumer groups have called for a boycott of the controversial " Duales System Deutschland " recycling scheme [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 16 | Editor 's comment : The Australian government are quite entitled to apply sanctions against South Africa if they so wish but the correct time to apply them is not after competitors have arrived for a World Championships in Australia to which they have been invited . |