Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First division sides receive around £13,500 Courage assistance , but Sudbury and Askeans have successfully called for a new look at the way the money is divided . |
| 2 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 3 | Lessons have been learned , but conservationists have long campaigned for a rethink . |
| 4 | You , Prime Minister Calfa and Labour Minister Miller have all called for a type of social contract in this transition period . |
| 5 | The Dart Valley Light Railway plc have , therefore , decided on a new policy for the future which it feels will keep faith with the Volunteer Association Members who are keen to develop and maintain the Buckfast-Totnes line as a typical GWR branch line operating as a non-profit making charitable trust and at the same time to satisfy its shareholders who have patiently waited for a dividend for many years . |
| 6 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 7 | Groups demanding an autonomous Sikh state have already called for a boycott of the elections . |
| 8 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 9 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 10 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 11 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 12 | ‘ Switzerland have not qualified for a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup finals and have grown used to losing . |
| 13 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 14 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 15 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 16 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 17 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 18 | Cardinal Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 19 | CARDINAL Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 20 | Broadly , Wendler 's argument is that these four factors have favourably intersected for a sub-set of technologies — Unix , C and TCP/IP — in large — scientific , engineering , government and education — but niche markets . |
| 21 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 22 | Councillors have now called for a full investigation before any action is taken . |
| 23 | See , just after the last spate of dates , when they were bolstered by an extra guitarist from Attic Head , The Boos have now plumped for a classier kind of act altogether . |
| 24 | I have n't arranged for a secondary . |
| 25 | I have n't eaten for a week . |
| 26 | There are about 3,000 bears there and they could be a hazard if they come out of the dens and have n't eaten for a few months . ’ |
| 27 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 28 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 29 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 30 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |