Example sentences of "has [adv] had a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 2 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 3 | The firm has just had an order for a village of 16' timber framed homes in Japan . |
| 4 | But the greatest coup for Three Choirs this year is that the company has already had an order for its wine from a French buyer . |
| 5 | ‘ Carolyn designed the dress as she has always had a flair for it . |
| 6 | The initiative foundered and Lorna , who has always had a talent for design , remembered an advert she had seen for Colour Counsellors . |
| 7 | My father has always had a passion for sailing . |
| 8 | Botham has always had a taste for showbiz . |
| 9 | Keith has always had a thing for men in uniform . |
| 10 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 11 | The Agen loose-head , who has never had a reputation for being a hothead , is refereeing junior and children 's games unaware that an old regulation of the French Federation — which used to automatically reduce the length of his ban if a player could show repentance by taking up refereeing — is no longer valid . |