Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And for Americans who can not get enough , CNN has arranged for a gruelling daily schedule of Brinkley on four other topics : food , travel , showbiz and health — laughingly titled Living In The Nineties . |
| 2 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 3 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 4 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 5 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 6 | Oxfordshire Health Authority admits its having to look for a two million pound saving under the Government 's Health Reforms . |
| 7 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 8 | ‘ We could n't have hoped for a better first few weeks of the tour . |
| 9 | Mr. Bickerstaffe goes on to repeat : ’ We would like to have argued for a higher minimum wage , for example , but the party has said no , there are others — pensioners and so on . |
| 10 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 11 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
| 12 | So Waqar , with this old , old ball , under cloud cover , had taken 5 for 13 in 38 balls , and with Munton pad-batting Mushtaq , England 's last six batsmen had made two runs between them , and the last eight wickets had dropped for a mere 28 runs . |
| 13 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |
| 14 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 15 | While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine , which rapidly collapsed . |
| 16 | Eventually , Maryport Council had to apply for a special nuclear waste disposal licence from the Department of the Environment so that it could legally dump the silt back in the sea again . |
| 17 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 18 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 19 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 20 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 21 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 22 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 23 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 24 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 25 | LABOUR councillors have called for a massive public demonstration to save Woodchurch swimming pool , amid fears it could be lost ‘ by stealth . ’ |
| 26 | WIRRAL Tories have called for a massive re-cycling drive to provide a realistic alternative to waste incineration . |
| 27 | Dr Andrei Sakharov and other leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday to put pressure on the Congress of People 's Deputies , the country 's supreme legislative body . |
| 28 | The successors to Martin Sadler 's company have gone for a whole new line of Stephen Jones-designed boats , making the Tony Castro-designed boat surplus to requirements . |
| 29 | Last year we recruited almost 300 school leavers onto our Retail Training Scheme [ RTS ] , through which they have studied for a National Vocational Qualification [ NVQ ] certificate . |