Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can anyone who has a genuine concern for the people they are trying to help or any genuine concern for the taxpayers who provide the funds have any well founded objection to producing such evidence ? |
| 2 | But thereafter , and certainly by the time he is six or seven months old , he will have developed a definite preference for the person who has a particular responsibility for him . |
| 3 | Aimed mainly at the professional market , these new drills will be of interest to the d-i-yer who has a particular need for a powerful cordless impact drill . |
| 4 | The idea of a chooser , a decider , who has a full capacity for rational decision and choice , seems to be central to our idea of a holder of rights … . |
| 5 | A sound general principle , if you are facing a foe who has a known preference for certain large monsters , is to have a magic weapon that can hurt them . |
| 6 | I have got erm a crazy mixed up erm if you like , combination ; erm one who has a precarious reputation for doing some strange things on the track , Andrea , and it 's ironical really because erm when at the end of erm my racing days , which seventy eight , seventy nine with the erm Malborough team , erm Andrea was a young kid coming through . |
| 7 | There was a remarkable output of scientific and philosophical writing , which culminated in the renowned Rudjer Bošković ( 1711–87 ) , an all-round scientist who had a European reputation for his writings on optics , physics , mechanics , astronomy , mathematics and philosophy . |
| 8 | The name was devised by Almroth Wright , who had a great love for such verbal inventions . ) |
| 9 | One of the great theologians of this century , Dietrich was a loyal German who had a deep affection for his country . |
| 10 | Except for Robin , who had a slight talent for painting , they were plodders , who would never make a mark on the world ; and even Robin was too unsteady to forge his own way . |
| 11 | This arrangement was kept going very nicely by her daughter ( who had a real affection for her ) reminding her occasionally that although she sometimes had to cut their conversations short , she never cut her out of her thoughts when she put the phone down . |
| 12 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |
| 13 | Such dreary teaching could be eliminated if literature were separated from language , theory from practice , and literature became the chosen subject only for those who had a particular aptitude for it , or a desire to learn to criticize and analyse . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're a bit early , Mr Wickham , ’ said the barman who had a fine memory for faces from television screens and newspapers . |
| 15 | Yafano , who had a previous conviction for skinning cats , was fined a total of £500 and his two terriers and hunting equipment was confiscated . |
| 16 | Mr Burrows added that Smith , who had a previous conviction for indecent assault , claimed he was high on drink and ecstasy at the time , but denied having a knife . |
| 17 | The expected numbers in each stratum were then summed to give an overall expected number ; and this was compared with the observed number of subjects with motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis who had a previous admission for peptic ulcer . |
| 18 | Oliver , who had a natural distaste for policemen , crossed the road and ran home , on the other side . |
| 19 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 20 | As a young man I listened to many yarns spun by such men as Billican Geary , Treacle Mills , and little Sparrow Martin , who had an insatiable appetite for apple pudding and who years ago as a young man dived off Rochester Bridge for a bet . |
| 21 | And it is well known that , being required to prepare designs for a useless and costly object by one of our leading nobility , long since deceased , one of princely fortune , but who had an extravagant passion for building , he purposely appealed to the son to advise his father to give the intention ’ . |
| 22 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 23 | A cheeky innocence was imparted to the ruined photo by Nicola 's prominent front teeth : her vanity and the ambition to succeed in television must have made her pay later for cosmetic dental work , concluded Dexter , who had an acute eye for wigs worn by men and corsets by women . |
| 24 | ‘ An example from the history of our own time is a lady of the high nobility , who had an invincible loathing for her first husband , although he was first among all subjects . … ’ |
| 25 | Thus there was little that could be acquired and developed immediately by those other builders who had an urgent need for land . |
| 26 | A competent scholar who had an inbred regard for the pastoral needs of country congregations , he was exactly suited to his place , upon which he never needed to insist , and its responsibilities , which he more than adequately fulfilled . |
| 27 | Saints , who have a rare capacity for exasperating their supporters when hopes are highest , saved their worst performance of the season for this crucial game . |
| 28 | But it is fair to assume that every time he sees people outside his own immediate entourage , there will be some among them who have a deep desire for vengeance . |
| 29 | In practice this second exception is unimportant because bearer securities have never been popular with English investors or English companies and are rarely issued and hardly ever in respect of shares , as opposed to bearer bonds , ( i.e. debentures ) which are sometimes issued to attract Continental investors who have a traditional liking for securities in bearer form . |
| 30 | But the kind of songs I really want to write — and I 'm not saying I will — are the kind The Frank & Walters and the Lemonheads write , the sort of people who have a genuine love for other people and can see past all the crap that goes on . ’ |