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 . |