Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 2 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 3 | Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week . |
| 4 | Tony Prosser ( Prosser , 1982 ) meanwhile has also argued for a new critical and objective theory of public law , in his case derived from Habermas 's work on communicative competence . |
| 5 | David Barnes , who joined the board in 1986 and is the only obvious successor to Sir Denys , has also argued for a different approach . |
| 6 | And he has also argued for a tougher approach to environmental enforcement and development of environmental technology . |
| 7 | In the US , the National Resources Defense Council has also petitioned for a faster phase-out of ozone depleters , calling for the CFC deadline to be moved from 2000 to 1995 , a 1993 ban on production of methyl chloroform and methyl bromide , and a 2005 ban of HCFCs which are not yet included in the protocol . |
| 8 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 9 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 10 | However , the replacement of the Community Programme by Employment Training threatens many of these initiatives and the Commission has recently called for a special environmental task force under the auspices of the new Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 11 | She has never cared for a disabled person before , but there is a natural love and empathy between them : she hugs Elaine a lot and they are very close . |
| 12 | However , if the employer has specifically asked for a chronological c.v . |
| 13 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 14 | On 14 June Baldwin was still living in 10 Downing Street , MacDonald having helpfully retired for a post-election holiday at Lossiemouth . |
| 15 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 16 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 17 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 18 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 19 | But she had not bargained for a complete refusal to attend . |
| 20 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 21 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 22 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 23 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 25 | The workforce at Swan Hunters have never asked for any special privileges , they 've always asked for a fair deal on a level playing field . |
| 26 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 27 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 28 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 29 | However , the plaintiffs had also asked for a winding up order under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 30 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |