Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 2 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 3 | A number of readers have asked for more advice on entries that cover matches in pairs and trios . |
| 4 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 5 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 6 | Although the classification of countries in Table 8.1 suggests that a large majority of countries have opted for stable exchange rates , in fact this is not so ; those countries which are pegged to the US dollar will find their exchange rate moving against other currencies , because the US dollar itself is an independently floating currency . |
| 7 | The external assessors would have responsibility for reporting their opinion of whether a board of directors had fulfilled for stewardship responsibilities outlined in the first proposal listed here . |
| 8 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 9 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 10 | In the French general election of 21 October 1945 , 75 per cent of electors had voted for Communist , Socialist or Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ) candidates . |
| 11 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 12 | The few , the old guard , who could see what generations of scholars had endured for , struggled for , thus lightly swept away , were not so happy . |
| 13 | The National Union of Teachers has voted for possible nationwide strikes in protest at the planned introduction of performance-related pay . |
| 14 | Consistency of standards has achieved for Les Jones a reputation as one of the finest builders in this country . |
| 15 | Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice . |
| 16 | After all , the main reason for that ban given by Lord Young , secretary of state for trade and industry , was that the Fraud Squad among others had asked for it . |
| 17 | Higgins among others has called for the abandonment of the term ‘ community care ’ and for the identification of practical alternatives . |