Example sentences of "it had a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
| 2 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 3 | What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth . |
| 4 | It had a special message for the Labour Party , and was surely a major reason for Labour 's growing loss of confidence between the 1950s and 1980s , including the failure to produce any convincing successor to Crosland as a theorist of democratic socialism . |
| 5 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 6 | The leisure and recreation convener , Charles Farquhar , said it gave the council no pleasure to raise the charges , as it had a high regard for the people who ran the teams . |