Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 2 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 3 | In the meanwhile , the Constable bought in at Sotheby 's last month at £850,000 may have given the Principal pause for thought . |
| 4 | Some may have given the wrong answer for reasons other than conceptual difficulty : making a slip , an arithmetic error , misreading or not being able to read the question , not trying and so on . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 6 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 7 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 8 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 9 | They will also have developed a new technique for controlling reactions within a fusion reactor . |
| 10 | But thereafter , and certainly by the time he is six or seven months old , he will have developed a definite preference for the person who has a particular responsibility for him . |
| 11 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 12 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 13 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 14 | Magistrates sitting in the Juvenile Court must have completed the special training for the Juvenile Panel . |
| 15 | You do not have to include a general model for your allies but you can do so if you wish . |
| 16 | She really should have treated the whole tank for white spot , not isolated her fish ( see this month 's article on Koi diseases ) , and was lucky no to get a recurrence . |
| 17 | The National Health Service was a genuine concern to many people , and for this and similar reasons , he believed , Margaret Thatcher could not possibly have won the next election for the Tories . |
| 18 | In this context Cuba , with its exceptionally high dependence on imported oil ( which accounts for approaching two-thirds of the island 's total energy consumption ) and its sophisticated modern refining capacity ( installed by Shell , Esso and Texaco ) , must have looked a promising market for Soviet oil . |
| 19 | In addition local authorities will have to meet the annual bill for personnel and administration , and the on-going expense of maintaining the museum buildings and exhibits . |
| 20 | The Warsaw pact would have to find a new home for its southern command , a small price . |
| 21 | We 'll have to find a suitable date for instance |
| 22 | Shoppers will have to find an extra £1 for every £7 currently spent and £6 will be added to the average weekly bill of £45 . |
| 23 | The modernisation and enlargement should have ensured a firm foundation for Wight 's business ; however , within a decade he went bankrupt , the ownership of the mill passing to Rev William Knight . |
| 24 | But Alfred was a pharmacist ; would he have chosen such a terrible death when a narcotic drug would have ensured a tranquil wait for the ferryman and a smooth crossing ? |
| 25 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 26 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 27 | For , of course , no matter what it decides , it will still have to comprise a desirable process for the market makers and it will still be up to investors to risk putting their money into the companies concerned . |
| 28 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 29 | His hands relaxed from their tight grip on the steering-wheel ; she must have said the right thing for once . |
| 30 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |