Example sentences of "have be [verb] for a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play , by Belfast writer Maria Jones , is aimed at children with special needs , and the production has been nominated for a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award for best production of 1992 . |
| 2 | First the old Morris I liked had been exchanged for a Jowett Javelin . |
| 3 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 4 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 5 | Application had been made for a Winchester city grant to be spent on improving heating in the village hall . |
| 6 | The trouble began when 10,000 Moslems marched in the town centre , protesting that permission had been granted for a five-day Christian revivalist rally to be addressed by a German preacher , Reinhard Bonnke , whereas some weeks previously permission had been refused for a South African imam to visit Kano . |
| 7 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |