Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 2 | Without such action by the judge , Intel would have to wait for the new 80287 trial to be completed before the company could file any appeal . |
| 3 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 4 | Transactors will have to search for the new equilibrium values themselves . |
| 5 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 6 | For all those reasons — administrative costs will be high , collection levels will be low and average bills will have to compensate for the special help given to the wealthy — the council tax bills will be higher than fair rates bills would have been . |
| 7 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 8 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 9 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 10 | They would have to compete for the reduced number of jobs . |
| 11 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
| 12 | Users will have to pay for the other two new products . |
| 13 | It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits . |
| 14 | Those figures — the £170 and the £153 — represent the surcharge that Langbaurgh families will have to pay for the continued life of the Tory Government . |
| 15 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 16 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 17 | Sam 's song is simple and obvious , coming from ‘ the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly have mistaken for the clear song of an Elven-lord ’ . |
| 18 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 19 | er I think a couple of things : first of all , the detail programme ; the government will have to produce for the forthcoming World Climate Conference in October/November , er the way in which they 're going to reach their target and secondly that will also discuss from amongst all the countries , what the target should be . |