Example sentences of "have [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception . |
2 | What evidence does the hon. Lady have for that suggestion ? |
3 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
4 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
5 | The ‘ behind the bikesheds ’ appeal that risk behaviours have for young people may be beyond the understanding of those who think that the residue of young smokers will be lured by the squeaky clean , sporty , sweet breathed image of abstinence . |
6 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
7 | It means the whole sale change of forms and colours and it must reduce the range of other colours that we have for other forms , do n't necessarily go into those wallets . |
8 | The propensity children have for imposing meaning distinctions of their own in their adherence to Contrast may delay their discovery of the absence of a difference between an adult form and a child innovation . |
9 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
10 | Five months later I have at last gained my confidence on Southall ; most of it is the trust and respect we have for each other . |
11 | We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients . |
12 | To win one of the 10 pairs of tickets we have for each show , simply complete this Shamen hit : Move Any … … |
13 | He will realise the concern that I have for disabled people , who would be hit by such an increase in petrol tax . |
14 | They are concerned with what is perceived to be ‘ right ’ for individual old people and their supporters and what degree of professional responsibility and organisational accountability the workers have for such people . |
15 | The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms . |
16 | Right let's see what we have for Good Friday . |
17 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
18 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
19 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |
20 | Architects have for many years been subjected to both legal and self-regulation . |
21 | THE US , Soviet Union , Britain , France and China have for many years had huge arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons in the form of ballistic missiles and manned bombers . |
22 | Voluntary codes of practice are still widely accepted in Britain , and public authorities like the BBC , the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the Cable Television Authority , the Advertising Standards Authority , and the British Board of Film Classification ( the BBFC ) have for many years been entrusted with responsibility for media standards . |
23 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
24 | Although academic psychologists have been reluctant to use this notion to cross the boundary between the normal and the abnormal , clinicians have for many years used a similar concept . |
25 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
26 | Local authorities have for many years enjoyed a power to purchase land compulsorily in order to carry out their statutory functions relating to highways or general development . |
27 | Persons disabled by war or in the armed forces and those disabled at work as a result of injury or prescribed industrial disease have for many years enjoyed reasonable financial provision . |
28 | Some European and Middle Eastern countries have for many years responded to the resultant labour shortages by " importing " immigrant labour to perform relatively menial and unskilled tasks . |
29 | They have argued that the ‘ contradictions ’ between Israel and Arab states have for many years frustrated the attempts of American strategists to construct an alliance between Israel and the more conservative Arab states . |
30 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |