Example sentences of "had more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By definition , the selfish mutant would have more offspring than the other members of the , of the population , and if they had more offspring , before long the mutants would begin to become an increasing , an increasing number in the population .
2 ‘ Listen , freak , that DK had more bottle than Express Dairies and if you — ’ Ace stopped and lowered her arm .
3 He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror .
4 Its voluntaristic side , influenced as it was by the ideas of G. H. Mead , had more affinity with the analyses of the acquisition of motives , techniques , and so on , that were to characterise the ‘ symbolic interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s .
5 Oxford had more problems than Cambridge in settling their crew , suffering the trauma of the sudden death during training of John Hebbes , in whose memory their boat is named .
6 We had more problems in Edinburgh and his colleague from Costa Rica often hard to interpret .
7 ALAN McMANUS , fifth on the latest provisional world rankings , had more problems fighting off flu symptoms than coping with Jason Prince in Derby yesterday .
8 It seemed that Vologsky had more resistance than most .
9 Blacks and Asians had more offences of violence than Whites , but Whites had more burglary and criminal damage .
10 And if we had more arms we 'd finish them off .
11 In the community service , clients with more needs had more resources expended on them , whereas , in the traditional hospital based service resources were uncorrelated with the extent of needs .
12 Had more Britons revolted , it seems doubtful whether the Roman recovery would have been so rapid .
13 I made a gesture that had more breeziness and gay abandon to it than a freezer full of fellators .
14 For example , when a family had more land than they could work by themselves and another family had nothing .
15 There was evidence that pupils had more experience with skills than with work which might probe their understanding .
16 The people who had more experience used to teach me lots of things .
17 His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible .
18 The remaining ten might be useful " when there was no preacher in their own or neighbouring societies provided they would take no step without the advice of those who had more experience than themselves " .
19 In all of Asia only India had more cases — and India 's population is 15 times Thailand 's .
20 In giving his ruling Judge White said the court had more cases waiting in which judgements in default against Lord Mancroft totalling more than £16,000 had not been satisfied .
21 Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level .
22 Now the side that had more failures ( or more was the side that lost , and the row that had less , of course , was the one that was successful .
23 My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked .
24 He had more cream on his hair than the Scottish Dairies , and sidelocks swooping down on either side of a pasty jowl .
25 She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year .
26 Someone who possibly had more influence on Laing than anyone else was the late Sir Douglas Crawford , formerly chairman of Wm Crawford $ Sons , which became part of United Biscuits in 1962 when Sir Douglas became vice-chairman until his retirement in 1974 .
27 She had been a teacher , and made sure the girl went to a good school : ‘ my granny had more influence on me education-wise .
28 Though the clan was all one family , and every man had the right to address the chief as a cousin , yet the older and greater branches of the family had more influence than tacksmen or recently-adopted incomers .
29 In fact , the indigenous population probably had more influence than most historians believe .
30 Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within .
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