Example sentences of "had [art] taste for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt of its instinct for splendour ; the Stewart kings all had a taste for lavish spending , and the ability to find the money to indulge it . |
| 2 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 3 | The Gruntes had gone their own ways for years , but Marjorie had a taste for practical jokes . |
| 4 | Raleigh replies when the Queen asks him what he thinks of the dispute between Essex and Mountjoy , and the last line is set with a homely finality which reminds us that , by the end of Gloriana 's reign , Raleigh is no longer a young man , and that the historic Raleigh had a taste for literary homily , as in his poem The Lie " . |
| 5 | He had no taste for further encounters with either Cunningham or his wife . |