Example sentences of "had for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also proof of the high regard that the right hon. Member for Finchley had for the right hon. Gentleman and his presence in her Cabinet . |
| 2 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 3 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 4 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 5 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 6 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 7 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 8 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 9 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 10 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 11 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 12 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 13 | In Palermo , Sicily , an absolute majority was won by the DC list headed by the former mayor Leoluca Orlando ( representing the left-oriented faction of the DC ) , who until his resignation in February had for the previous 2@1/2 years headed an " anti-Mafia " coalition of the DC and the PCI . |
| 14 | Matisse , as has been seen , had for the past years been turning to the work of Cézanne for inspiration , and by 1906 Derain was looking at his work also , so that it was only natural that Braque , who had discovered Fauvism through them , should once again follow their example , although he was already well acquainted with Cézanne 's work . |
| 15 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 16 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 17 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 18 | Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have . |
| 19 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 20 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 21 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 22 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 23 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 24 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |