Example sentences of "have [verb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 2 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 3 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 4 | I refer to your fax of 16 February 1993 concerning the return you have received for completion from the Local Government Chronicle . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , archaeologists and historians have looked for Vetus for years . |
| 6 | ‘ For some time , independents have argued for intervention on behalf of a British film industry : an initiative based around support for films with low production budgets , which neither copy American styles , nor turn into Euro-puddings . |
| 7 | Five newcomers have applied for promotion to the Sealink level and the two front runners are Holyhead Town and St Asaph City , the respective Gwynedd and Clwyd League champions . |
| 8 | What happens if you have applied for compensation in the inland post , you are not satisfied and you still consider you have a claim ? |
| 9 | All who have applied for admission to the school are to be taken to have expressed a preference for that school : section 6(4) . |
| 10 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 11 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |
| 12 | What did the lady your mother have made for flux in her household ? |
| 13 | This latter alternative , the old route , is strongly to be recommended , however , the traveller being rewarded by a magnificent intimate view of a mountain of rare visual appeal , Ben Loyal , the first of the scenic highlights I have selected for inclusion in this book . |
| 14 | They have appealed for help in finding his clothes and any information about his movements after leaving the dinner . |
| 15 | Police have appealed for help in tracing the last movements of Anthony Buck , 46 , of Bishopthorpe Road , York , whose body was discovered in the River Ouse at Selby on Wednesday evening . |
| 16 | Although Essex finally agreed to provide Thomas with special teaching in a state school , his parents are dissatisfied with the quality of tuition on offer and have appealed for help from Mr Clarke , Education Secretary . |
| 17 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as a getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagent 's shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 18 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as the getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagents shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 19 | Detectives trying to trace the vans — a Ford Transit and a Bedford — have appealed for information from anyone who may have sold such vehicles in recent weeks . |
| 20 | POLICE investigating an attempted murder bid on a leading Shankill Road loyalist have appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the attack . |
| 21 | POLICE have appealed for information in a bid to identify an elderly woman found wandering along a busy road . |
| 22 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 23 | Some Christians have called for representation of workers on the board of directors , joint decision-making at all levels within the company , the break-up of oligopolies , a restriction on the number of directorships any one person can hold ( the suggested number is three ) and restrictions on the directors of financial corporations holding directorships in non-financial corporations , and vice versa . |
| 24 | Adventurers have quested for Lavondyss since the beginning of time . |
| 25 | Increasingly , therefore , TNCs take up international investment opportunities through international capital markets , and domestic companies have to compete for capital from the USA , Japan and other countries . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what initiatives Her Majesty 's Government have proposed for reform of the United Nations . |
| 27 | However the influence of television practice is strong and many publishers of classroom video materials for language teaching have opted for continuity of character , an ongoing story and a repeated format . |
| 28 | ‘ With the 715 , ’ John reflects , ‘ Trace have gone for volume in a small box , with no hook-up opportunities — these seem to start on the next model up . |
| 29 | As the Soviet army in Germany has to cross Poland to get home ( unless it goes by sea ) , the Poles have asked for compensation for the trouble this causes . |
| 30 | Many people have found it has helped to make a pact with a friend who is also giving up ; or they have asked for sponsorship from their friends , fellow office workers or family ( their support will be invaluable ) . |