Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 2 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 3 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 4 | Now the prime minister , Brian Mulroney , has regrouped for a counter-attack . |
| 5 | After so-far fruitless attempts to create a ‘ scrambler ’ signal which could be inserted onto a disc or tape to prevent copying , the record industry has lobbied for a royalty to be placed on blank tapes and tape recording hardware . |
| 6 | Certainly small business , through its close connections with the ruling LDP party , has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business . |
| 7 | She has told the local Home Care Organiser about Mrs B and the Organiser has arranged for a Home Help for the old lady , and is now arranging for the Community Laundry Service to be provided . |
| 8 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 9 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 10 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 11 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 12 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 13 | ‘ Far from departing from the traditional view of the relationship between ranks , the moment has come for a return to it , ’ said Mr Roach . |
| 14 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 15 | Time has come for a change . |
| 16 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 17 | It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’ |
| 18 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 19 | Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism . |
| 20 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 21 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding the recent flurry of statutory and quasi-statutory regulatory activity in relation to insider dealing in the UK , there has operated for a number of years a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse in both the corporate/ unorthodox context and the individual/traditional context . |
| 23 | That family has applied for a renovation grant on an old building . |
| 24 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 25 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 26 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 27 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 28 | The Objectivity/DB database from Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , which DEC has offered for a year , will be marketed as DEC Object/DB from September , also under Open VMS and RISC/Ultrix . |
| 29 | , In a policy document on transport , the Green Party has called for a rise in the price of petrol to £6 a gallon ( a 170 per cent increase ) , a halt to new road building , a speed limit of 50 mph on motorways , and heavy investment in public transport . |
| 30 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |