Example sentences of "[verb] have [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 More recently Rudolf Herr has had overall responsibility for the road haulage interests of the group , and until his promotion , was Chairman of the management board of Rhenania .
2 Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question .
3 The reason why linguistics has had such importance for literary theory , however , is not just that a change of direction has taken place in the development of the discipline .
4 Although the statistical theory of Gibbs and de Marzio has had some success for polystyrene in predicting the variation of T2 with molecular weight , the variation of specific heat with temperature , it has met with criticism .
5 Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) .
6 In recent years the amateur actor has had more opportunity for classes in theatre work , including voice and movement training as well as performance and directing skills .
7 Mr Dunn has had operational responsibility for GEC-Ferranti 's five Scottish factories .
8 Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment .
9 Like most people , older people want to have enough income for their needs and to live in homes which they can manage and keep warm .
10 Do we not need to have real training for real jobs on the same basis as our major European competitors , notably the Germans ?
11 She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other .
12 I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger .
13 The protein interacts with only one of the DNA strands and based on the fact that the complementary strand competes for binding it would appear to have little affinity for the double stranded form of the oligonucleotide .
14 ‘ a judge has not and should not appear to have any responsibility for the institution of prosecutions ; nor has he any power to refuse to allow a prosecution to proceed merely because he considers that , as a matter of policy , it ought not to have been brought .
15 Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred .
16 A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint .
17 The CPU is said to have some support for out-of-order execution of instructions , which requires very tricky circuitry to reassemble the stream in the right order and avoid dependency conflicts .
18 In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived .
19 At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ?
20 The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission .
21 Mike Davies , General Manager of the International Tennis Federation , said : ‘ There are not many events in the world that can claim to have continuous sponsorship for 14 years as will be the case of Coca-Cola .
22 But when women experience child loss , the rationale of family planning for health or other purposes tends to have little meaning for them , and many reject non-traditional means of spacing or limiting births .
23 If children can be drawn into normal conversation with adults as they work together , the ideas and experience which they assimilate will begin to have more meaning for them .
24 They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence .
25 A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days .
26 But now it 's my time in the sun , and that seems to mean that Oliver 's going to have less fun for a bit .
27 In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her .
28 People seem to have sufficient respect for the law to disapprove more strongly of an action when a law is passed against it , but they do not have sufficient respect for the penal system to be influenced by the severity of punishment inflicted ( Walker and Marsh , 1994 ) .
29 I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing .
30 I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved .
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