Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , East ( Mr. Healey ) was one of the main authors of that doctrine in the 1960s and today it enjoys some credibility due to the efforts of the present Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence , who has argued clearly for the theory of flexible response in a series of public lectures and articles . |
| 2 | Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year . |
| 3 | The Anglo-American lati relationship has done more for the defence and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world . |
| 4 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 5 | Matt has asked particularly for a device which can be interfaced with a computer so I have searched through my data library in order to find a short-list of suitable devices . |
| 6 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |
| 7 | The Audit Commission was established in 1982 to address this issue and has campaigned vigorously for the introduction of performance review considering this an appropriate response to many of the problems perceived to be afflicting local authorities . |
| 8 | The Government allowed users a price cap as a transitional measure , but it has run only for a year , until March 1991 . |
| 9 | Now an education and training consultant , Dr. Strongitharm has made a substantial contribution to building education and has worked tirelessly for the Institute for almost 30 years . |
| 10 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 11 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 12 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 13 | If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid . |
| 14 | No mother could ever have done more for the girl . |
| 15 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 16 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 17 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 19 | He came out of the clinic on 19 March having stayed there for a week longer than he had anticipated , and was once again forced to rest . |
| 20 | " If he went in at Hew at midnight , he would n't have started downstream for an hour or so . " |
| 21 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 22 | Another famous figure , Joan Mirö , initially praised by Breton as ‘ the most Surrealist ’ painter , later described his Surrealist phase as having lasted only for a matter of months . |
| 23 | On April 4 the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church was reported to have voted unanimously for the reinstatement of its former head , Patriarch Teoctist Arapas , whose known complicity with the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu had led to his " withdrawal " on Jan. 18 to the monastery of Sinaia , 120 km north of Bucharest [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 24 | had originally demanded a ransom of 5,000,000 pesos ( US$212,000 ) but was understood to have settled instead for the receipt of food . |
| 25 | This pattern seems to have emerged historically for a number of reasons . |
| 26 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 27 | Delegates from the United States had lobbied hard for the ICIFI to be affiliated . |
| 28 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 29 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 30 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |