Example sentences of "have [prep] [art] [adj] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 3 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 4 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 5 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 6 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 7 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 8 | Scientists at La Jolla University , California , have for the first time established a link between nitrous oxide and the nylon industry . |
| 9 | I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics . |