Example sentences of "have [verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country .
2 The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals .
3 O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been .
4 Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " .
5 Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines .
6 It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men .
7 Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes .
8 To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers .
9 Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs .
10 Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold .
11 It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone .
12 It is a useful exercise to look in detail at a particular school with which one is familiar and ask how much of current practice would have to change for the policies listed to be implemented .
13 Industry will have to pay for the licences they are granted and will have a duty to reduce pollution and render their discharges harmless .
14 In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels .
15 In other words Jordan would have to act for the Palestinians .
16 A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy .
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