Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Had that name for many centuries .
2 So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ?
3 The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country .
4 Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ .
5 Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources .
6 The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples .
7 Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education .
8 He was uninterested in politics and , like the other members of his family , had little time for sectarian prejudice .
9 With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh .
10 I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room .
11 With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 .
12 After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research .
13 First , though , there is a need to say something more general about Adorno 's position , in the context of the approach outlined in the previous chapter — particularly in light of the fact that Adorno evidently had little time for popular music !
14 One reason , no doubt , was that he had little tolerance for real pagan myths or for naïve mythicizers .
15 He hated Tories in general and had little respect for most of the Tory leadership , although some he did respect , primarily Harold Macmillan .
16 Some composers — Beethoven was one of them — had little gift for vocal writing .
17 They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them .
18 I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much .
19 Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's .
20 Mother Creswell , writing in The Whore 's Rhetorick , had this advice for seventeenth-century aspirants :
21 Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this .
22 He had some reason for this view , since there was little sign that Toynbee Hall and the other settlements made any significant impact upon the East End .
23 Duke also had high hopes for Super Tuesday , especially in his native Louisiana .
24 The manufacturers of videodisc players in the late 1970s and early 1980s had high hopes for commercial success across consumer , professional and business markets .
25 As evidence , Mr Smith cites the relative share price performance during 1991 of the companies which had high scores for creative accounting in the 1991 report .
26 The Army had another reason for quiet confidence .
27 At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident .
28 In fact he had few qualifications for great office .
29 It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly .
30 Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty .
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