Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saul , a visiting American postgraduate , gets involved with brainy Catherine , who has a weakness for one-night stands with working-class youths . |
| 2 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 3 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 4 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 5 | She is brought to King Shahriyar who has a reputation for killing virgins after he has slept with them . |
| 6 | The court heard that the girl and three pals decided to spike a fruit pastille with LSD as an end-of-year prank on Mr Lock , who has a reputation for scrounging sweets from pupils . |
| 7 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 8 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 9 | But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're all complete Donovan fanatics , ’ admits No Man guitarist Steven Wilson , who has a penchant for dresses in a live context . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're all complete Donovan fanatics , ’ admits No Man guitarist Steven Wilson , who has a penchant for dresses in a live context . |
| 12 | So can Tory opponents such as Sir James Hill and junior environment minister Robin Squire , who has a liking for the lamb pasanda ( Pounds 6.45 ) , again with pilau rice ( £1.60 ) . |
| 13 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 14 | There may be someone who 's a bit unsteady on her feet who has a passion for old time dancing . |
| 15 | Andy , who has a passion for golf , will have no chance of a game on the estate 's private nine-hole course . |
| 16 | It was Elise who saw to the accounts and the buying , who had a flair for salesmanship . |
| 17 | It was actually owned by a man who had a licence for festivals . |
| 18 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 19 | Then there was the Indian woman reported last year in the New England Journal of Medicine ( vol 306 , p 1056 ) who had a craving for paper . |
| 20 | Luke , who had a reputation for staying cool , had panicked . |
| 21 | The mayor , who had a reputation for trendiness , wore a pale yellow suit under his chain of office ; his lady was in pink flowers and a wide-brimmed white straw hat ; the royal relative was orange from head to foot . |
| 22 | Terminal ileal biopsy specimens were taken at ileocolonoscopy ( four patients ) for patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis and by the ileostomy of two patients who had a colectomy for UC ( histological reports state that 2 and 4 cm of ileum had been resected with the colectomy ) . |
| 23 | Secondly , if the polytechnic in question had deteriorated in resource provision and management to the point suggested , this pointed to the lack of an early warning system through the Inspectorate , who had a responsibility for the monitoring of standards in non-university institutions . |
| 24 | But there was someone at least in that dreadful place who had a thought for others besides himself . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've got a bargain , ’ said Murray , who had a bid for Saville rejected before he signed Johnrose . |
| 26 | Two centuries later Flamininus was emulated by the Roman emperor Nero ( AD 54–68 ) , who had a passion for Greek culture and who , in AD 67 , exempted all Greek cities , by then incorporated within the Roman province of Achaia , from taxation and Roman interference in local administration . |
| 27 | At times he openly despised his boys ; one , who had a passion for candy bars , he nicknamed ‘ Munchpot ’ : ‘ Why do n't you justify your existence , Munchpot , ’ Bobby Hunt heard him say , ‘ and empty the wastepaper basket . ’ |
| 28 | Similarly , the person who has a great love of music might find blindness less of a handicap in obtaining pleasure than would the person who had a passion for football . |
| 29 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 30 | We particularly remember our friendly old tortoise who had a passion for toes , and we had to sit with our feet in cardboard boxes so we did n't have nibbled digits ! |