Example sentences of "and have a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his other good qualities are : a strong attachment to his home and a constant readiness to defend it ; he is very willing to retrieve and has a good capacity for tracking ; he has considerable endurance , likes the water and is fond of children . |
| 2 | Helen Carpenter has always taken an interest in clothes and has a good eye for colour but , approaching 40 , she felt it was time to rethink some areas of her looks . |
| 3 | He has spent time in South Africa and has a tremendous admiration for their game . |
| 4 | Such concurrent listening and speaking is known as " shadowing " , and has a strong reputation for being attention-demanding . |
| 5 | Mustard has been used as a flavouring in cooking for thousands of years , and has a worldwide reputation for enhancing a variety of savoury dishes . |
| 6 | That Committee is at a remove from the day to day problems that harass the project members , and has a special responsibility for drawing attention to underlying problems and longer term implications . |
| 7 | The IntelliServer appears to the network as a single Ethernet node , and supports Telnet , rlogin , and RCP protocols and has a menu-driven interface for new users . |
| 8 | Directory Integrity Check then seeks an entry point in the package structure for each module which has been identified as a candidate for entry i.e. a package which is managed by the specified user and has an active DC for the module . |
| 9 | Quinn counted on Zack having spent three weeks reading miles of inaccurate nonsense in the tabloid papers and having a healthy contempt for the press . |
| 10 | For Roy , being born in St Andrews and having a keen golfer for a dad , it was inevitable that he would eventually be bitten by the bug . |
| 11 | On a personal level , I have to say that I found the fellowship 's officials to be delightfully hospitable and to have a genuine love for God . |
| 12 | But he was very systematic in his descriptions and had a rare gift for the significant detail . |
| 13 | Knew all the responses and had a suitable respect for the cloth . |
| 14 | Ernie was built in the strong mould of the traditional full-back of the time , but he was cool under pressure and had a keen eye for a volleyed clearance to avert any threatening danger , so that it was entirely fitting when the Football League honoured him with a place in one of their representative sides in the autumn of 1921 . |
| 15 | Her father did not seem ill , and had a new plan for earning money . |
| 16 | He said he wanted to attend school and had a particular liking for technical subjects . |
| 17 | The UK company was founded in 1932 at Warwick and had a dual function for LDP . |
| 18 | Even Admiral Hyman Rickover , father and all-powerful master of the US Navy 's nuclear programme , who had hitherto blocked all Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear submarine development and had a well-known contempt for all things British , agreed not only to Britain purchasing an American reactor for her first nuclear submarine , Dreadnought , but also for the reactor to be the most recent second-generation version , thus saving Britain valuable time and development costs . |
| 19 | He was over the drink-drive limit and had a previous conviction for careless driving . |
| 20 | Proceedings were commenced against Volkswagen of America ( VWoA ) , a New Jersey corporation which did business in Illinois and had a registered address for service there . |
| 21 | Gedge , with help from Debbie Kaye , did most of the band 's administration and had an unquenchable thirst for hard work . |
| 22 | Norman pitched his into the heart of the green and had an outside chance for birdie . |
| 23 | What is certain is that the ancient Celts practised the art , and had an expressive name for the fiery liquid the produced … uisge beatha … the water of life . |
| 24 | He was a novice golfer but at least he did n't talk much , and had an innate respect for a fellow professional sportsman . |
| 25 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 26 | They meet for 48 hours every eight months and have a rotating leadership for group sessions . |
| 27 | ‘ If they each do their own thing they will repeat things , but if we can bring that all together and have a centralised repository for the work that people have done , it will save having to reinvent the wheel each time . |
| 28 | To belong , a dealer must have been in business for three years and have a proven reputation for expertise . |
| 29 | They are taught a broad range of subjects , they learn about childcare and have a good preparation for motherhood , and they provide support and solidarity to each other . |
| 30 | to be suspicious and have a good nose for smell ; |