Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute has called for more stringent vetting of solicitors ' accounting arrangements , and has particularly questioned whether the existing system of annual checks is adequate . |
| 2 | The new Audi V8 too , has a rust-proofed body , although Audi has opted for more substantial galvanised steel instead . |
| 3 | It 's a far cry from the security and comfort of Wimpey 's Middlesbrough office where Margaret has worked for as assistant legal manager . |
| 4 | So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself . |
| 5 | Simmel emphasizes the paradoxical nature of culture , recognizing the essentially positive process of modernity which has allowed for hitherto unimaginable possibilities ; but he is wary of the forces which lead towards reification and autonomy , both of which are inimical to human interests . |
| 6 | ‘ There are exceptions , like Pizza Express , which has survived for so long and is still very successful because quality is paramount . |
| 7 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |
| 8 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 9 | Having asked for very specific things and following the instructions your mentor gives you by speaking with your own voice , you will see the results . |
| 10 | The conformism might have arisen for quite different reasons and among its other consequences happened incidentally to amplify the beneficial effects of the inhibitions . |
| 11 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 12 | This change was designed to limit the scope for corruption ; the system of " preferences " had made for easily identifiable blocs of voters who could be organized — especially by the Mafia and other such groups in the south — to swing behind a particular candidate in return for future favours . |
| 13 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 14 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 15 | In his opening address on Sept. 16 , the IAEA 's Director-General Hans Blix had called for more stringent measures to help detect illicit nuclear weapons programmes and recommended that national intelligence agencies share information with the IAEA on possible violations of nuclear non-proliferation accords . |
| 16 | ‘ He was n't , ’ said my mother , perhaps because she had concurred for too long and now it was time for contradiction . |
| 17 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 18 | The effect of capitalism on the women of farming families was therefore to trap them even further in their role as producers of labour power and to intensify the feeling which men and women of these families had experienced for so long that ‘ Life itself is work ’ . |
| 19 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 20 | I had hoped for more happy years . ’ |
| 21 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 22 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | " It was one of the major tragedies of Nicholas I that his reign ended in a war over the Turkish problem which he had worked for so long to solve by peaceful and negotiated agreement " . |
| 24 | Poor immigrants from Ireland , Wales and adjoining parts of Lancashire and Cheshire had moved in and the old wealthy elite that had previously enjoyed Everton 's rural isolation had left for more secluded homes beyond the township bounds . |
| 25 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 26 | They had waited for so long that some of them had forgotten what they were waiting for . |
| 27 | Her large eyes were fixed on him , and she wished that she could go away and leave him in peace when he had laboured for so long and so hard . |
| 28 | Given press reaction to his production — Debussy specialists have howled ‘ what , no harp ! ’ , establishment opera critics have retreated , snarling , to their corners to blow on scorched fingers , while others ( this critic included ) have searched for appropriately fresh superlatives — the questions to Brook and artistic colleagues were strangely tame . |
| 29 | Since the time psychologists and personnel managers have searched for more effective methods of personnel selection and psychological tests are one result of this work . |
| 30 | These new data have made for better informed controversies but have not resolved them all . |