Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 2 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 3 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 4 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 5 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 6 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 7 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 8 | Mr Gysi has spoken out for sweeping political and economic reforms and has acted as lawyer for the opposition New Forum . |
| 9 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |
| 10 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 11 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 12 | No one heard him come up but he must have got in for Ruthven to die and the white rose to be found . ’ |
| 13 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 14 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 15 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 16 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 17 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 18 | To some extent , each pattern seems to have grown up for extraneous , though important , reasons to do with institutional or occupational history and student circumstances . |
| 19 | City directors are understood to have pulled out for financial reasons . |
| 20 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 21 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 22 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 23 | And those are what we 've thought out for British Rail . |
| 24 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 25 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 26 | With the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) yet to give the go-ahead , or otherwise , for the station to re-start generation again after being shut down since February , 1991 , Mr Moares said it was not surprising that some people had put in for voluntary redundancy . |
| 27 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 28 | Confidence in the government was further lowered by public accusations by Merbah 's predecessor as Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi ( who resigned from the FLN central committee on Oct. 16 ) , that President Chadli Bendjedid had known about a US$26,000,000 corruption scandal involving state contracts , which was currently subject to a parliamentary inquiry , and had covered up for senior ministers involved . |
| 29 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 30 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |