Example sentences of "that [noun] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refer to source B. What evidence does Snowden give to prove his assertion that MacDonald had planned for a National government ? |
| 2 | Moreover , they misunderstand the nature of the task upon which the judge has been compelled to engage himself , which is to discover , using the tools with which the law has furnished him — the accepted presumptions and canons of construction — not some speculative but unexpressed ‘ intention of Parliament ’ but the ambit of the written rules that Parliament has imposed for the regulation of the subject 's conduct and his rights and duties under the law . |
| 3 | It was sheltered from prying eyes by trees , in the very heart of that section of the Dresden Heide that Mitzer had purchased for the Party . |
| 4 | There was a hole low down in the hedge that Nutty had earmarked for entry . |
| 5 | There were only three huts and a couple of three-walled structures that Isabel had taken for huts last night . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it is likely that birds have selected for sweeter fruits through evolutionary time . |
| 7 | Due to the fact that aerosols have accounted for 60 per cent of CFC usage in the UK , Britain will meet the terms of the Montreal Protocol ( a 50 per cent cut in CFCs ) ten years ahead of schedule . |
| 8 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 9 | This was the second success that Pat had landed for the Scott stable since his return , the other having been on Crawford Says who beat subsequent Irish national winner Ebony Jane at Fairyhouse . |
| 10 | With the coming of fresh food , and the medicines that Abul had sent for , she seemed to rally her strength . |
| 11 | Such generosity did not extend to a paper tie and crown that Picasso had made for Richardson ( also for Cooper ) on some gala occasion . |
| 12 | In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation ; Gleanings and Memoranda headlined the speech " The Coalition Form of Government almost indispensable . " |
| 13 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 14 | Kuwait 's Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba disclosed that Kuwait had asked for an 800,000 bpd oil loan from the Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) , worth US$14,000,000 a day , to help meet reconstruction costs incurred by the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 15 | Well , I did n't know that Ebert had arranged for us to stay in a singsong house . |
| 16 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |
| 17 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 18 | He began to speak of Stella 's interesting experiences during her cruise , of the cookery course that Heather had enrolled for , and of Rob 's house-hunting forays . |
| 19 | Next morning Shiona remained in bed until she was certain that Jake had left for the office . |
| 20 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 21 | The quiteron is not the first superconducting device that engineers have considered for chips . |
| 22 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 23 | It 's a second for Gary , it 's a fourth for Notts and er the little bit of tension that Notts had created for themselves as they went off the boil and came really into the game with their two goals from first of all and then from from the free kick , but 's goal in the last minute here making it four two and really capping a most entertaining night for Notts . |
| 24 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 25 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 26 | I was shown the furniture that Tom had made for his marital home — all of the drawers with dovetails , sliding in and out without effort . |
| 27 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
| 28 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 29 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , that I may be privileged to tread upon flagstones that worshippers have trod for centuries is a joy . |