Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 2 | But on the basis of these latest extremely encouraging results , the joint venture has decided to apply for an exploitation licence in the Laurenzana permit area . |
| 3 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 4 | The entire Barnes collection has been examined by National Gallery conservators , and the National Gallery has agreed to arrange for the tour 's transportation and insurance . |
| 5 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 6 | More recent work has attempted to allow for the fact that holders of money balances may switch into a whole spectrum of assets , such as equities , trade bills and certificates of deposit . |
| 7 | The Czech Republic , for example , has pledged to care for the grave of the Slovak poet Jan Kollatr , who is buried in Prague . |
| 8 | Casa Alianza has continued to press for a retrial . |
| 9 | Reynaldo has continued to campaign for the rights of the Mapuche Indians and indigenous people elsewhere . |
| 10 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 11 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 12 | Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks . |
| 13 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 14 | How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ? |
| 15 | It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published . |
| 16 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 17 | He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 . |
| 18 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 19 | She had intended to stay for a weekend . |
| 20 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 21 | We had resolved to press for a route which would take the march into the walled centre of the city and expected opposition from the moderate members of the CRA . |
| 22 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 23 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 24 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 25 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 26 | William Rathbone [ q.v. ] had offered to pay for a matron and trained nurses for three years , as an experiment , to be supplied by the Nightingale Fund , and Florence Nightingale had nominated Agnes Jones . |
| 27 | You 've got to go for a ball that 's on the table . |
| 28 | and we 've got to , we 've got to sing for the master |
| 29 | I 've got to wait for the man ! |
| 30 | I 've got to pay for a turn |