Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |
| 2 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 3 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 4 | Explaining , now , more of the past history of Samavia , Lorestan reveals that the Lost Prince has been found , the time has come for the corrupt government to be overthrown and the message must be carried through Europe that ‘ the lamp is lighted ’ . |
| 5 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 6 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 7 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |
| 8 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 9 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 10 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 11 | SWINDON player-manager Glenn Hoddle has called for the new back-pass laws to be changed immediately . |
| 12 | He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals . |
| 13 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon has called for the immediate suspension of the officers involved and for the investigation to be carried out by officers from another police force . |
| 14 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 15 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 16 | His texts were like epic editions of the famous WFMT Chicago radio show he has hosted for the past 35 years , in which he encourages but never intrudes . |
| 17 | Surely the time has arrived for the British Royal Family to put a proper end to the speculation that surrounds it by telling the truth . |
| 18 | A resolution was passed at the 1897 Congress that ‘ the time has arrived for the direct representation of the cooperative movement in Parliament ’ . |
| 19 | With its new MouseMan Cordless , Logitech has opted for the alternative cordless solution , radio . |
| 20 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 21 | Major , in contrast , has opted for the quiet life . |
| 22 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has gone to Micro Focus Plc , Newbury , Berkshire for a Cobol compiler for its Series 400 fault-tolerant Unix multi-processor : it has opted for the Micro Focus Cobol/2 optimised for the hardware architecture to produce high performance native code ; no value was given for the agreement . |
| 23 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 24 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
| 25 | It was this need that led to the setting up of an annual programme of three two-week radio training workshops , which WACC has supported for the past two years . |
| 26 | Jaye has gone for the understated look : fatigues and T-shirt , hair tied back , no makeup . |
| 27 | Since 1984 the British Medical Association has campaigned for the minimum age for the sale of tobacco to be raised to 18 years . |
| 28 | has worked for the Latin American Council of Churches in Brazil . |
| 29 | One reason why V remains relatively stable in the long run , despite an increase in money supply , is that sufficient time has elapsed for the direct mechanism to have worked fully through . |
| 30 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |