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

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1 Duke also had high hopes for Super Tuesday , especially in his native Louisiana .
2 The manufacturers of videodisc players in the late 1970s and early 1980s had high hopes for commercial success across consumer , professional and business markets .
3 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 .
4 It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly .
5 Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty .
6 But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study .
7 That 5½- acre site was in the hands of the liquidator of JMOB for some time , and had obvious disadvantages for any developer .
8 The erstwhile priest was currently charged with indecent assault and buggery and he had previous convictions for serious sexual offences .
9 All patients had conventional examinations for anal incontinence or diatthoea , or both including flexible sigmoidoscopy , barium enema , barium meal and follow through , faecal fat estimation , xylose test , glucose breath test , and lactose tolerance test .
10 Subjects who had abnormal results for one or more of these parameters were regarded as having abnormal manometry .
11 Within months he found a patron in Governor Lachlan Macquarie [ q.v. ] of New South Wales , who had ambitious plans for public works in the colony , and in 1816 he was appointed government architect , receiving his emancipation in the following year .
12 Rituals showed honour and reverence for the dead , not only the traditional laying of flowers , but the weaving into the fence of scarves and team colours which had intimate meaning for this occasion .
13 had reasonable grounds for that belief ;
14 Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich .
15 As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania .
16 In Spain the Archive of the Indies , which had great importance for some aspects of foreign policy , was set up in Seville in 1781 .
17 But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth .
18 Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed .
19 Three had gastrotomy and intubation or gastroenterostomy and biopsy only , four had partial oesophagectomy for squamous tumours , 10 had total gastrectomies , and seven had partial gastrectomies .
20 The Egyptian Moses was murdered , Freud claims , and this had profound implications for Jewish religion .
21 Both Presidents Bush and Saddam Hussein had harsh words for one another in television broadcasts .
22 The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title .
23 This taking into municipal ownership of a variety of undertakings had various aims for those of differing political persuasions .
24 Household expenses were rising ; Henry had grandiose schemes for new royal palaces ; revolt threatened in Ireland ; and the foreign consequences of his first divorce seemed likely to prove expensive .
25 The train had living accommodation for thirty-eight sick berth staff , all in the charge of a medical officer , who had his living quarters in the staff coach , while 140 sick and wounded were accommodated in six cot coaches .
26 The two great men clearly had immense respect for each other .
27 One of the reasons for their homelessness is that the Prime Minister , when he had ministerial responsibility for social security , changed the rules and regulations .
28 For Zuwaya or Magharba , the largest group which had common descent for practical purposes was a tribe .
29 This year they had ninety-pound coats for thirty .
30 I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board .
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