Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 2 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 3 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 4 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 5 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 6 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 7 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 8 | FOUR RAILWAYMEN have plumped for a ‘ busmen 's holiday ’ this autumn … by organising a charity rail tour to delightful Poole in Dorset which will be picking up at Wigan North Western . |
| 9 | The inquiry had heard forensic details of each individual death but as Mark Smith reports the parents had hoped for a great deal more . |
| 10 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 11 | The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while . |
| 12 | Most of the existing pilot sites have opted for a fairly large-scale computer-based system with a central system that stores for case-mix purposes , the data from a number of locally based feeder units . |
| 13 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 14 | Some European countries have opted for a more acceptable solution in the form of " right to reply " legislation , which allows judges or " ombudsmen " to direct newspapers to publish corrections and counter-statements from those who claim to have been misrepresented . |
| 15 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 16 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 17 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 18 | Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation . |
| 19 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 20 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 21 | Clarity about their role presented another problem : secondees had hoped for a job description , clear role definition with well defined tasks and clear line management responsibility . |
| 22 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 23 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 24 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 25 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 26 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 27 | If one subtracts the vote of this vulnerable group from the remaining 76 per cent , this means that they have to live with the knowledge that more than one in four of voting co-residents have voted for a party that is rabidly hostile to them . |
| 28 | Congress , our principles have stood for a hundred and three years . |
| 29 | The two academics had asked for a grant of £40,000 ; they have been given around £18,000 . |
| 30 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |