Example sentences of "have a curious [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruined figure on our left has a curious head-dress , perhaps oriental , which would fit with Pelops 's eastern origin . |
| 2 | Like many cephalopods , it has a curious life cycle : after growing very rapidly , reaching sexual maturity in just four months , it dies after a single breeding session . |
| 3 | The Canadian model has a curious corollary , which was to have an unhappy future , extending almost down to the present day . |
| 4 | This theme has a curious persistence , but one does not need a song and dance about it . |
| 5 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 6 | String theory has a curious history . |
| 7 | Actor Edward Woodward again introduces the cases , and has a curious link with one of them . |
| 8 | Instead , reality after the Fall has a curious ambiguity , a strange double-edged aspect . |
| 9 | Mathematics explores a mental universe ; and the characteristic way a good mathematical problem requires us to juggle imagined entities in seeking a solution has a curious fascination for all human beings . |
| 10 | The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement : it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color . |
| 11 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 12 | The Princess has a curious effect on pregnant women . |
| 13 | ‘ Your thunderous expression has a curious habit of giving everything away . ’ |
| 14 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 15 | That stone has had a curious history . |
| 16 | Be this as it may , the church and parish of Temple continued to have a curious history . |
| 17 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 18 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 19 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |
| 20 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 21 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 22 | We had a curious patient , an English nursing officer working in Nigeria , who had chylous urine but no evidence of filarial infection . |
| 23 | It had a curious brass handle , embossed with leaves and fruit . |
| 24 | He had a curious mixture of enthusiasm and impracticability in his approach to some everyday things , as for instance studying a most complicated recipe from one of his cookery books ( they included Mrs Beeton and Elizabeth David ) , then going out to buy not only the ingredients but equipment too . |
| 25 | While he bent over the cot , she watched him with a mischievous look ; after a little , she said she had a curious pain in her chest . |
| 26 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 27 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 28 | She had a curious feeling that greater good fortune would yet be hers , that she was destined for high places . |
| 29 | The voice had a curious quality , husky and high-pitched as if uncertain whether it was a light tenor or a throaty mezzo-soprano . |
| 30 | The president is both head of state and head of government and in that capacity serves to some extent as a symbol of the nation , a focus for loyalty and Americans have a curious capacity for er im imputing to whoever wins the presidential election a set of er outstanding qualities . |