Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 2 | After so-far fruitless attempts to create a ‘ scrambler ’ signal which could be inserted onto a disc or tape to prevent copying , the record industry has lobbied for a royalty to be placed on blank tapes and tape recording hardware . |
| 3 | Certainly small business , through its close connections with the ruling LDP party , has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business . |
| 4 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 5 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 6 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 7 | ‘ Far from departing from the traditional view of the relationship between ranks , the moment has come for a return to it , ’ said Mr Roach . |
| 8 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 9 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 10 | Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the recent flurry of statutory and quasi-statutory regulatory activity in relation to insider dealing in the UK , there has operated for a number of years a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse in both the corporate/ unorthodox context and the individual/traditional context . |
| 12 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 13 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 14 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 15 | , In a policy document on transport , the Green Party has called for a rise in the price of petrol to £6 a gallon ( a 170 per cent increase ) , a halt to new road building , a speed limit of 50 mph on motorways , and heavy investment in public transport . |
| 16 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 17 | The UN has called for a ban on drift nets worldwide by 1992 , and in the South Pacific by 1991 . |
| 18 | The Swedish government has called for a ban on the international trade in the bluefin tuna . |
| 19 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has called for a ban on further production of halons , used principally in fire extinguishers . |
| 20 | At a conference of the Prison Officers ' Association , their leader , John Bartell has called for a halt on the Government 's privatisation of the prison service . |
| 21 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked on one of the sweets . |
| 22 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked . |
| 23 | The recently-formed Bootle Miners Support Group has called for a lobby of Gladstone Dock tomorrow lunchtime . |
| 24 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 25 | Pandolfi has called for a supplement of 136 million ecu to enable a number of projects to be revived . |
| 26 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |
| 27 | Friends of the Earth has called for a boycott of all timber products from Britain 's leading " do-it-yourself " chain stores , on the grounds that their import of tropical hardwoods is contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 28 | A 15-member panel chosen to represent a cross section of the Dutch public has called for a moratorium on all commercial exploitation of genetically manipulated animals because there are still too many unknowns in genetic engineering . |
| 29 | The organization has called for a review of Hong Kong 's detention policy for asylum-seekers . |
| 30 | The Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Paul Condon , has called for a review of deportation procedures following the death of a Jamaican woman after a deportation order was served . |