Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 2 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 3 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 4 | COT deaths in England and Wales have fallen for the third consecutive year , Government figures revealed yesterday . |
| 5 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 6 | TWO blonde beauties in Prince Charles 's life have fallen for the same attraction . |
| 7 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 8 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 9 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 10 | Students from all over the world have gathered for a unique championships . |
| 11 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 12 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 13 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 14 | Consider again the differential equation for the three-element model : where we have substituted for the various constants in terms of the relaxation times complex constants . |
| 15 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 16 | The ballot will be secret and neither the names of those who have voted for a particular candidate nor the names of those who have abstained from voting shall be disclosed by the scrutineers . |
| 17 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 18 | And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference ? |
| 19 | You will now appreciate the load I have carried for the greater part of my life . |
| 20 | COT deaths in England and Wales have dropped for the third year in succession . |
| 21 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 22 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |
| 23 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 24 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 25 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 26 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 27 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 28 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |