Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] 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 | They will also have developed a new technique for controlling reactions within a fusion reactor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You do not have to include a general model for your allies but you can do so if you wish . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Warsaw pact would have to find a new home for its southern command , a small price . |
| 10 | We 'll have to find a suitable date for instance |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now when retirement comes I shall have built a new life for myself and also be able to manage on a lower income . |
| 15 | She should have accepted a comfortable change for the better . |
| 16 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 17 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 18 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 19 | The bride was an attractive and lively young woman who under normal circumstances would have made a sympathetic wife for an energetic and ambitious young man . |
| 20 | If things had been otherwise , Mrs Arbuthnot would have made an ideal wife for the duke . |
| 21 | Any electoral agreement with radical Liberals would have produced an embarrassing position for the Labour party . |
| 22 | In the Liberal cabinet the majority was against allowing the PLA and Lord Devonport to be coerced by the Transport Workers Federation into a settlement ; Lloyd George and Haldane would have preferred a minimum wage for all dock workers and disliked Devonport 's intransigence , but were outvoted . |
| 23 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 24 | He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times . |
| 25 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 26 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 27 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 28 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 29 | David , an obvious model for early medieval princes , could have had a special appeal for Charles ( as we know he did for Alfred ) . |
| 30 | Certain staff who might have shown a real aptitude for broadcasting found themselves discouraged by civil service rules on promotion and pay . |