Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 2 | Transactors will have to search for the new equilibrium values themselves . |
| 3 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 4 | For all those reasons — administrative costs will be high , collection levels will be low and average bills will have to compensate for the special help given to the wealthy — the council tax bills will be higher than fair rates bills would have been . |
| 5 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 6 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 7 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 8 | They would have to compete for the reduced number of jobs . |
| 9 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
| 10 | It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits . |
| 11 | Those figures — the £170 and the £153 — represent the surcharge that Langbaurgh families will have to pay for the continued life of the Tory Government . |
| 12 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 13 | Sam 's song is simple and obvious , coming from ‘ the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly have mistaken for the clear song of an Elven-lord ’ . |
| 14 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 15 | er I think a couple of things : first of all , the detail programme ; the government will have to produce for the forthcoming World Climate Conference in October/November , er the way in which they 're going to reach their target and secondly that will also discuss from amongst all the countries , what the target should be . |