Example sentences of "have [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We will have to arrange for advance publicity , set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around . |
| 32 | Schools will therefore have to plan for possible alterations in price and salary changes throughout the year . |
| 33 | As we have seen , the establishment of NAB , with its very strong representation from the local authorities , creates a new environment for the polytechnics , and the colleges and institutes of higher education , to which they will have to adjust for some years to come . |
| 34 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 35 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 36 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 37 | ‘ If the museum had n't offered an opportunity , they would have looked for another . ’ |
| 38 | Residential homes will face losing some of their fees and we will have to compensate for this out of our transferred funds ’ . |
| 39 | I doubt that these young men , had they been allowed to form their own world view and their own understanding of national history , would have voted for this bloodshed . |
| 40 | Nevertheless , as Primaflora was immoderately aware , he would not have come for these alone , with no heed for the heat of the day . |
| 41 | Zermatt , for example , is a resort where many skiers must have wished for better links . |
| 42 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 43 | We could n't have wished for better weather — perfect sunshine , just the right start for a wedding day and honeymoon/the most beautiful , romantic white Christmas . |
| 44 | It was as clear an indication as he could ever have wished for that Hope was not primarily interested in the immense dowry . |
| 45 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 46 | No headmaster could have wished for more . |
| 47 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 48 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 49 | If the relocation package is too generous , the company may find a higher percentage of non-essential staff moving with the firm and some employees , who would have moved for less , reaping substantial benefits . |
| 50 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 51 | You must get out of this place and do the one good thinking you 'll ever have done for any woman . |
| 52 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 53 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 54 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 55 | The fact that the US announced its continuing if not open-ended assistance for the French in Vietnam on the same day as the Schuman plan began Germany 's rehabilitation in Europe was , obviously , a coincidence in spite of any gratitude which the US might have felt for this imaginative and , at the same time , practical French gesture . |
| 56 | It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament . |
| 57 | ‘ No organisation , no individual , could have threatened his security , but Najibullah , because of the threat of the restoration of peace and the fear that he would have to answer for some of his past deeds , tried to flee , ’ said Mr Wakil . |
| 58 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 59 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 60 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |