Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission has drawn up proposals for compulsory recovery of 90 per cent of all packaging waste . |
| 2 | This Carpenter 's In-House store at Headington in Oxford is one of twenty-six accross the country that has shut up shop for good . |
| 3 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 4 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 5 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 6 | Reports in early July said that the USA had drawn up plans for closer monitoring of international sanctions against Iraq following Jordan 's alleged violation of the trade embargo . |
| 7 | The Department of Education had accepted criticisms of the provision made for young children in ordinary elementary schools and had phased out arrangements for under-threes by 1904 ( in 1875 elementary schools accommodated 19,358 under-threes ) . |
| 8 | By the time I was involved the business had chalked up losses for many years and was in deep trouble . |
| 9 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 10 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 11 | He had put out orders for hundreds of seedling trees , miles of fencing . |
| 12 | But political changes in several countries have opened up opportunities for alternative broadcasting channels . |