Example sentences of "had an [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge , with help from Debbie Kaye , did most of the band 's administration and had an unquenchable thirst for hard work . |
| 2 | Churchward purchased three French locomotives of a type which had an outstanding reputation for comparative tests against his own latest locomotives , which proved equally powerful and economical . |
| 3 | Telemann had an acute ear for instrumental sounds and colours and much of his writing for flute , violin and gamba in the B minor Suite is very carefully thought out . |
| 4 | He began to instruct his son , this Philip Miller , in the art from his earliest years , as he had an uncommon liking for that occupation . |
| 5 | Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Stanley Morison , responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s , was not an adroit penman — he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition . |
| 7 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 8 | Alice 's Restaurant ( 1969 ) had an obvious appeal for those who could identify with a communal haven for hippies , and Little Big Man would continue to reveal his preoccupation with the outsider by seeing the Cheyenne as ‘ ethnic ’ hippies who contrasted favourably with white civilisation . |