Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] 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 The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses .
15 Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits .
16 Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms .
17 What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ?
18 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 .
19 Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations .
20 In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time .
21 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 .
22 Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly .
23 French farmers have called for a ban on imports .
24 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 .
25 Congress , our principles have stood for a hundred and three years .
26 The two academics had asked for a grant of £40,000 ; they have been given around £18,000 .
27 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 .
28 Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again .
29 Certainly there is an abundance of examples in history to illustrate that failure to redress genuine grievance in its early stages has called for a very heavy price indeed later on .
30 Liberals had argued for a wider franchise for years and Unionists had demanded a redistribution , so both sides got something of what they wanted and proportional representation was thrown in with the present mood of Labour in mind , so that the anti-socialist parties would be able to consolidate their position if necessary .
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