Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
6 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | 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 . ’ |
13 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
14 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
15 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
16 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
17 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
18 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
19 | Residents have campaigned for a long time for a speed restriction and traffic calming in Skerne Park , which has a high accident rate . |
20 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
21 | In calling for a vote on European union , TODAY is speaking up for what most of us have wanted for a long time . |
22 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
23 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
24 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |