Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 2 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 3 | Take note of the DC identifiers that LIFESPAN has supplied for the package and the new modules . |
| 4 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 5 | Mr Sellar , 26 , was previously service engineer at the company and has worked for the company since it was set up . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Transarc Corp , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , has signed for the software and together with Retix will integrate it with the Encina transaction processing monitor it markets . |
| 8 | This is the price that an investor has to pay for the possibility that the share price may change to make the option in-the-money . |
| 9 | Applications are usually expensive , often costing several hundred pounds ; after all , someone has to pay for the advertising and the glossy box . |
| 10 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 11 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 12 | A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices . |
| 13 | A middle-class woman , a woman with more money and fewer children , might have apologised for the squalor and the smell of a hundred stale meals . |
| 14 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 15 | How much will an investor have to pay for the bond if he buys it |
| 16 | ‘ British Steel wo n't have to pay for the wear and tear of the roads caused by the extra traffic , ’ he said . |
| 17 | And thi I mean , you do n't have to pay for the creche cos it comes in the , it 's part of your |
| 18 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 19 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 20 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 21 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 22 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 23 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 24 | People in the city had voted for the metro but others in LA county had effectively vetoed the project . |
| 25 | Of these , 1,876,957 ( 89.21 per cent ) had voted for the charter and 213,817 ( 10.16 per cent ) against . |
| 26 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 27 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 28 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 29 | All had volunteered for the study and received two full days ' training before its start . |
| 30 | On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves . |