Example sentences of "had [det] [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 | The Army had another reason for quiet confidence . |
| 24 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 25 | In fact he had few qualifications for great office . |
| 26 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 27 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 28 | In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning . |
| 29 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 30 | She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year . |