Example sentences of "for having [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 2 | As she reveals more , the Doctor turns to rebuke Lady Macbeth 's gentlewoman for having heard these secrets of state : Yet the audience , divine in that , has known all along . |
| 3 | Many inward investments can be criticized for lacking research and development facilities , for having limited local independence , and so on . |
| 4 | He despised the little Jew for his grasping , mercenary manner , despised himself for having to use such trash . |
| 5 | The social exclusivity of private education enables a distinct ‘ superior ’ culture to remain intact , and ensures that this world-view is displayed with the self-assurance and ‘ soundness ’ that is valued by those recruiting entrants to elite occupations ( the elite-educated spies Burgess and Maclean are notorious for having exploited this trust ) . |
| 6 | When preparing a suggestion for costs to your opponents you should run through a checklist of the following tasks which are likely to have occupied your time during the case and assess how long you have spent on those tasks or how much time you think you should charge for having completed those tasks : Letters out , miscellaneous telephone calls . |
| 7 | So , if even there seems to be no obvious reason for having presented these recordings in this way , I am not really complaining . |
| 8 | On the same day , however , Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato issued a carefully worded statement on behalf of the government which claimed that it was in " deep reflection for having caused unbearable agony and sorrow to the peoples in parts of Asia and the Pacific in fighting started with the attack on Pearl Harbour " . |
| 9 | My apologies for having caused this mistake in an otherwise excellent report . |
| 10 | She felt better for having made that decision ; perhaps her car would be ready by the time she came back . |
| 11 | She bit off further words , feeling irritated with herself for having made that admission . |
| 12 | These were ( i ) the abolition of the draconian National Security Law relating to sedition and espionage ; ( ii ) admission of a North Korean " consolation " delegation to visit three South Korean dissidents imprisoned under the National Security Law for having made unauthorized visits to the North ; and ( iii ) the authorization of South Korean dissidents to attend a pro-unification rally due to be held in Panmunjom on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese colonial rule . |
| 13 | Both sides reiterated their established positions ( within which there was little common ground ) , and the North also outlined three preconditions for further progress : ( i ) the scrapping of Team Spirit ; ( ii ) no separate UN membership for the Korea states [ but see pp. 38191 ; 38437 ] ; and ( iii ) the release of those imprisoned in the South for having made unauthorized visits to the North . |
| 14 | The Territorial Army was therefore entitled to the credit for having trained those people , because there is no way in which , having volunteered off the street , they could have gone out to serve effectively in the Gulf . |
| 15 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 16 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | ‘ What time is it ? ’ she asked , berating herself for having slept all night . |
| 18 | However , these ran into difficulty when , on Dec. 1 , US President Bush ruled out the possibility of an American apology for having dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 , an action which he defended as having " spared millions of American lives " . |
| 19 | The sculptor Joseph Nollekens [ q.v. ] was reputed to have been removed from Barnard 's will for having shown inadequate admiration for Barnard 's Italian drawings . |
| 20 | Further criticism of the USA in this respect was made ( i ) by the EC in particular as well as by the above three countries at a meeting on July 3 of the GATT Surveillance Body , a constituent body of the TNC ( see above ) ; and ( ii ) by the 26 member countries of the Latin American Economic System ( SELA ) on Aug. 3 at a ministerial meeting in Cartagena ( Colombia ) for having identified six countries ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela ) as not providing adequate protection for IPRs . |
| 21 | Of the 405 members of Congress seeking re-election in November 1990 , only one , Donald " Buz " Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) , was defeated during the primary process , and his campaign was impaired by his conviction for having had sexual intercourse with a minor . |
| 22 | Richard W. Miller , 53 , a former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 4 for having supplied classified documents to a female Soviet agent in exchange for sexual favours and promises of money and gold . |
| 23 | The SVP was acknowledged for having supplied many visitors from its ranks in the recent past . |
| 24 | Follow the blue posts until the track meets an obvious forestry road , and as a reward for having come this way , a wooden seat . |