Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If he had lived any longer , the world would n't have given a toss for any of our compositions . ’ |
| 3 | You know the government may well have given a priority for special needs |
| 4 | Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach . |
| 5 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 6 | I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes . |
| 7 | If the diagram were complete , it would have to include a call for further , perhaps broader , correlations , logically linked into a bundle but not different in kind . |
| 8 | Solicitors and barristers experienced in personal injury litigation will have to estimate a sum for loss of amenity and pain and suffering based on awards in similar cases , their own practice and the published awards contained in specialist books . |
| 9 | Eventually politicians and the general public will have to accept that there will never be full employment again , and will have to provide a living for those unlikely ever to get jobs . |
| 10 | Traditional sixth form education may still exist in some comprehensive schools — the 11–18 range — but you may have to find a place for your child in a FE ( Further Education ) establishment . |
| 11 | However , it seems unlikely that the British parent did not back Mr Nathan 's proposal , which would have secured a price for Imigran similar to that in Britain . |
| 12 | Even Hazel could not have said a word for his life . |
| 13 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 14 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 15 | We shall remember Jack Nicklaus shedding the years in 1986 , and spiriting the ball into the hole with a long-bladed putter which must surely have made a fortune for its inventor . |
| 16 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 17 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 18 | Yes , you 'll have to buy a chart for that one person |
| 19 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 20 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’ |
| 22 | Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular . |
| 23 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 24 | I think people who go to prison must have had a reason for whatever they did . |
| 25 | ‘ This man Riddle must have had a taste for nuts and raisins ; he seems to have eaten quite a few within a couple of hours before his death . ’ |
| 26 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
| 27 | A US peace plan for the Middle East , which would have recognised a place for Palestinians , was rejected by Begin . |
| 28 | There 's absolutely nothing to tell your doctor fortunately , so we do n't have to do a summary for you or anything like that . |
| 29 | Erm , d' you have to do a picture for the north and south of it , or just one overall picture ? |
| 30 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |