Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 3 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 4 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 5 | Tommy Sheridan , convener of Scottish Militant Labour , said sacked workers had asked for outside support at the picket line . |
| 6 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 7 | Officials had to send for special chemicals to break down the tar and free the vehicles . |
| 8 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 9 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 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 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 12 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | Both also operated as armies had done for many previous centuries by finding their supplies from the land as they moved about . |
| 14 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 15 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |
| 16 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 17 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 18 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 19 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 20 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 21 | A state of emergency was ordered for Baku by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 19 , after demonstrators had massed for three consecutive days outside the Azerbaijan CP central committee 's headquarters to demand the leadership 's resignation , and had erected barricades on the city 's outskirts to prevent the entry of Soviet troops . |
| 22 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 23 | In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular . |
| 24 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 25 | Its member states had joined for diverse reasons , and of the regional states perhaps only Thailand took the Pact seriously . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 28 | Man 's desire to fly like the birds had existed for hundreds of years but with the advent of the internal combustion engine , the chances of achieving some sort of flight appeared to be improved . |
| 29 | On July 25 , thousands of Hong Kong citizens had applied for British Dependent Territories Citizenship ( BDTC ) . |
| 30 | Working-class women cuddled their babies up in the warm as women had done for millions of years . |