Example sentences of "have a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 2 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 3 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 4 | He has a genius for conducting but he does n't enjoy doing it . |
| 5 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has a genius for encouraging new species into its reserves , making them feel welcome . |
| 6 | That woman has a genius for organization . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She has a genius for sorting things out . |
| 8 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 9 | The other , the revivalist , has a fixation for a dead past . |
| 10 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 11 | In his job as Forties Delta scaffolding foreman , Reg Sowerby has a head for heights . |
| 12 | Likewise , the next movement after the Haymakers ' Dance , the countertenor solo ‘ A thousand ways ’ , has a stave for a vocal bass line , which the copyist has left blank except for clefs and key- and time-signatures . |
| 13 | The snowy owl assemblage has a deficit for the molars of their prey but an excess for the incisors , but this is considered to be an inconsistency due to small sample size for the incisors . |
| 14 | He now has a scheme for a second Europe-wide enterprise that he intends to run with an English friend . |
| 15 | It 's a good sign if he has loved someone a lot , it shows that he has a capacity for love . ’ |
| 16 | There are primitive layers , even in modern Europeans who were then fighting the war , which mean that man has a capacity for brutality exceeding that of other animals . |
| 17 | The yard has a capacity for about five Scanmar 40s per year . |
| 18 | Even in term , however , up to 450 people take lunch in the Lord Todd , which has a capacity for 200 , so there is plenty of work involved in serving and then clearing tables to accommodate all the diners . |
| 19 | It would appear that the employer has a predilection for this type of trainee , and this trend may well increase in future years . |
| 20 | As I have already mentioned , the best way to deal with these if your opponent has a predilection for using them is to prime a couple of heroes with the appropriate magic items . |
| 21 | ( a ) Crackington Haven Has a graveyard for shipwrecked sailors who were not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground . |
| 22 | But a community that accepts integrity has a vehicle for organic change , even if it is not always wholly effective , that it would not otherwise have at all . |
| 23 | The chart has a space for each day of the year and symbols are used to indicate the non-availability of the various types of accommodation on certain days . |
| 24 | ( Mr Lilley 's package has a treatment for that , too : more publicity for companies ' spending on R&D — as though City analysts might be persuaded by the civil servants to give research more importance . ) |
| 25 | Miss Murdock has a fancy for the occasional scene of action , though they always have a meaning , a symbolic resonance for their particular book , and she has , too , a gift for writing them . |
| 26 | The second method is use a Ceiling Maestro , which is screwed to a joist or a piece of timber between the joists , and which has a hook for a chain and a screwed hole for a rod . |
| 27 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 28 | The spacious lounge has a bar for a relaxing drink and leads out onto a surrounding , shaded terrace . |
| 29 | The site already has a licence for waste disposal , but Leigh says that it is now considering the future of the site . |
| 30 | Well the problem is he has to say he has a licence for you , he has n't so , it 's possible that Terry will be . |