Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prof Wilkie , who trained with Scottish Widows and who has also worked for Standard Life , is a partner of R Watson & Partners , the firm of consulting actuaries , and is an honorary visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 2 | I am as surprised as anyone to learn that Colin has now signed for current Football League champions Leeds United . |
| 3 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a $470m contract for Groupe Speciale Mobile equipment from Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH : the contract covers infrastructure , services and telephones and is the largest the company has yet received for mobile phone kit . |
| 4 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 5 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 6 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 7 | Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets . |
| 8 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 9 | Reports on April 6 said that Australia 's Prime Minister Bob Hawke had also called for international action to help the Kurds . |
| 10 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 11 | Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day . |
| 12 | Jackson have long stood for high quality American instruments , with their Japanese- and Korean-made Charvel counterparts sitting at the other end of the corporate see-saw . |
| 13 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 14 | The travellers have now applied for retrospective planning permission . |
| 15 | A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership . |
| 16 | ’ He 's definitely gone for early retirement then ? ’ |