Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 2 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 3 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 4 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 5 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 6 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 7 | and my Lord er the appeal to the court of appeal er which is at erm tab five was exclusively on the issue of whether Lord Justice and the divisional court were correct in the ruling they have docted for the interim , er and the court of appeal judgement , the main judgement is given by Lord Justice er reviewed with and the erm the heart of Lord Justice judgement on this issue is to be found at page nineteen my Lord of the transcript passage that begins my reading of this judgment down to the bottom of that paragraph at letter G , so from B to G on page nineteen . |
| 8 | I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got . |
| 9 | Member States can thus shelter behind the organisation they have created for the regulation of trade in a commodity . |
| 10 | Even living statesmen are now encouraged to record on tape their comments on events which they have observed for the benefit of archives of sound-recording . |
| 11 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 12 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 13 | They have called for the removal of dangerous waste dumped in the White and Barents Seas , which , according to the news agency Tass , " have been turned into a pool for radioactive waste " . |
| 14 | Instead they have called for the diversion of subsidies paid to the nuclear power industry--one of the reasons why coal-based electricity is " uncompetitive " --to the development and improvement of technologies which burn coal more efficiently and more cleanly . |
| 15 | Last year we recruited almost 300 school leavers onto our Retail Training Scheme [ RTS ] , through which they have studied for a National Vocational Qualification [ NVQ ] certificate . |
| 16 | They have searched for the death |
| 17 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 18 | At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week . |
| 19 | Staff let us know how many days they have worked for the month . |
| 20 | By way of illustration , he described the loneliness experienced by many recently separated couples , even when they have longed for the divorce , and despite a great deal of support from companions . |
| 21 | The dogs howl and whine at first , then realize that they have finished for the day . |
| 22 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 23 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 24 | before hand there were the same designated police officer of the same specialized suites , things have changed and they have changed for the better . |
| 25 | It is suggested that they have changed for the better , while we have not . |
| 26 | Instead they have voted for a man who promised change , who believed in change and who recognised that change had to come . |
| 27 | Regularly presented as the principal policy medium for the resolution of these two problems , the impact of urban policy on either has been as minor as the significance they have had for the formulation and legitimation of policy has been major . |