Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 2 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 3 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 4 | Heseltine watchers could have wished for no clearer sign of his leadership intentions . |
| 5 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 6 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 9 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 10 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 11 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 12 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 13 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 14 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 15 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 16 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 17 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 18 | I , for one , would have settled for a 3–0 victory . |
| 19 | But I 'm sure anyone of the United players and the fans that have made the trip up from Oxford this afternoon , would have settled for a one point at half time . |
| 20 | Wright could n't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 29th birthday today . |
| 21 | I could n't have asked for a better family ! |
| 22 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 24 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 25 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 26 | For a teaching museum we could n't have hoped for a better gift . |
| 27 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 28 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 29 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 30 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |