Example sentences of "have [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has such a capacity for unreflecting cruelty now . |
| 2 | Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally , he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic |
| 3 | ‘ Madder than ever , ’ she recalled Adam saying , and she turned her head away roughly , bitter at having such a madman for a father . |
| 4 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 5 | The brochures issued by each of the plaintiffs encourages a borrowing member to have such a report for his or her own protection . |
| 6 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 7 | She had such a capacity for joy that she overcame such negative feelings , ’ Bettina explained . |
| 8 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 9 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 10 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 11 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 12 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 13 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 14 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 15 | Anthony and his team have built-up a reputation for running well-organised and entertaining events at this historic Battle of Britain fighter base , so a trip to North Weald on the 4th should be pencilled into your diary . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm especially pleased you have such a fondness for babies . |