Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 2 | They have to go for a dental inspection |
| 3 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 4 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 5 | In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body . |
| 6 | I have to wait for a white actor to turn down a role because the stuff that they 're supposedly writing ‘ black ’ ai n't happenin' . |
| 7 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 8 | Students from all over the world have gathered for a unique championships . |
| 9 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 10 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 11 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 12 | The ballot will be secret and neither the names of those who have voted for a particular candidate nor the names of those who have abstained from voting shall be disclosed by the scrutineers . |
| 13 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |
| 14 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 16 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 17 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 18 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 19 | We have argued for a revised theory of the relations between state and people : one reflecting the role of states in managing social relations and moral careers but one which recognises too that states , in representing a general or ‘ national ’ interest , have an important emotional significance . |
| 20 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 21 | Greenpeace have applied for a judicial review of the NRA 's system of controlling pollution — based on " consents " by which companies are allowed to pollute up to specific limits . |
| 22 | There is one further complication which has arisen , and that is , that we er , need to apply have applied for a high waste er , the roads on the estate are , in fact , adopted erm so we do need to get that through . |
| 23 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 24 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 25 | No matter how volatile the economy you seem to have divine protection , whether this is because you have saved for a rainy day or you are just downright lucky . |
| 26 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 28 | Health and Medical Organisations : All the leading British and international medical and health organisations that have studied the problem of smoking have called for a total ban by legislation on the promotion of tobacco . |
| 29 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 30 | Many organisations including the Town and Country Planning Association , Council for the Protection of Rural England , Royal Town Planning Institute , and the South East Economic Development Strategy have called for a comprehensive planning and transport strategy for the South East , arguing that this is essential both to protect the region from the adverse effects of the Tunnel and to maximise its benefits . |