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

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1 As Falk points out , Builder himself has argued for such a shift ( Builder , 1979 ) .
2 I do n't know that much about him but I think he is 21(22) years old , has no international matches on any level , has played for Kongsvinger the last year ( an ordinary club in our top division ) .
3 It is also clear from a recent evaluation that , despite the fact that the course was originally concerned with recruiting activists and not concerned with qualifications , the activists are now in the minority and that the course has become for many a means of access into higher education .
4 Puma has introduced for 1992 a new concept in shoe comfort , the Puma Disc system .
5 The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked for all the relevant papers on the nine British soldiers killed by so-called friendly fire in the Gulf .
6 It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well .
7 But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and
8 Why had she had to wait for such an education ?
9 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 .
10 With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations .
11 However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ?
12 three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open .
13 ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around .
14 The motion having been made after half-past Two o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Deputy Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order .
15 The motion having been made at Ten o'clock , and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Deputy Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order .
16 The motion having been made at Ten o'clock , and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order .
17 There is no question of my giving way — The Motion having been made after Ten o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order .
18 They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took .
19 That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe .
20 The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours .
21 Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession .
22 In that case , I would have paid for all the drinks , would n't I ?
23 Stunned by the sensation , she had to search for all the willpower she possessed not to let her reaction show in her expression .
24 Martin Lee , an outspoken critic of China and a proponent of full democracy for the territory , had called for half the Legco seats to be directly elected by 1995 .
25 He had become for most a distant , shadowy figure , only seldom to be seen now in newsreels , hardly ever speaking to the nation , and no longer being seen in public .
26 On his return , he found that people were curious about why he had opted for such a tough mountain .
27 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
28 The constitution had provided for such an alternative — the Cabinet Council in which ministers met without the president under the chairmanship of the prime minister .
29 Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again .
30 I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten .
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