Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 … |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
8 | Their perception was that we , we had a desperate shortage of staff |
9 | But then , of course , the club had a desperate need of publicity to keep their generous new sponsors happy . |
10 | Bruce had a simple pendulum of the kind people employ to locate water , and which he used for diagnosis . |
11 | As far as the 1975 election is concerned VUPP had a greater proportion of seats than was warranted by its first preference vote for two reasons . |
12 | Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training . |
13 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
14 | Standards were more likely to be improved , it was said , if parents had a greater choice of schools , and the new Technology Colleges were now to be among the choices on offer for those who lived in their catchment area . |
15 | This group of disturbed children also had a greater persistence of bedwetting . |
16 | Most controls were from lower to mid-middle class , while the cases had a greater spread of social class . |
17 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
18 | Thus we can see how Germany 's pro-natalist policies had a greater measure of success those in Italy . |
19 | Allegheny West had a greater percentage of units for which bond issue loans were allocated and a still greater percentage allocated to investors than its percentage of North Side units would account for . |
20 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
21 | At a recent meeting with some of my local farmers , I was most encouraged to see that they gave a far higher priority to and had a greater awareness of the need for better marketing . |
22 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
23 | He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men ; Vologsky could take a full three minutes longer in the centrifuge chamber than any other member of his squadron . |
24 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
25 | Katherine had drawn it all with snail-like whorls of her pen , a multitude of curving strokes , so that the landscape had a hectic life of its own , at once like and unlike itself . |
26 | She had a blurry image of Piers 's face and started . |
27 | She had a tidy amount of money of her own . |
28 | Under the electoral system of 1918 , the Unionists had a minimum vote of at least 38 per cent of the electorate , and this would bring at least 250 seats in a parliament of 615 ; in a political world of three parties this almost guaranteed that no other party would govern alone and that the Unionists would usually have a majority . |
29 | Most machine-guns had a cyclic rate of fire of 500–600rpm , which necessitated a great number of ammunition carriers . |
30 | He had a close view of one of the pictures painted on the wall that he had not noticed before . |