Example sentences of "had [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortensen also noted that A. ingolfiana was bigger than A. norvegica and had coarser arms . |
| 2 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | The first neutrons to arrive had the highest energy and the later ones had lower energies . |
| 5 | The other two had lower OBS scores ( four and six ) but one had such poor mobility that she was incapable of doing much for herself , and the other was disorientated and lonely , and was felt to require some companionship and support . |
| 6 | At this point , it became apparent that the systems being considered had lower priorities than other current developments , and as a result , the proposed pilot studies for DIP systems were discontinued , and the analysts concentrated on the development of the index system only . |
| 7 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
| 8 | They followed this up to show that affected leaves had lower concentrations of magnesium , an important part of the chlorophyll molecule . |
| 9 | One interesting study from Edinburgh University , published in The Lancet , found that men with angina had lower levels of vitamins A , C and E in their blood compared with a similar group who did not suffer from heart disease . |
| 10 | Social policy in Mussolini 's Italy and Hitler 's Germany also had broader aspects . |
| 11 | The Tarsiidae had shorter noses and primitive teeth . |
| 12 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 13 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 14 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions , complete the following sentence , ‘ If I had bigger breasts , the first thing I 'd do would be … , ’ and send your answers in on a fax with coupons from any three GenTech products . |
| 15 | The chairman of the London Board , Harry Randall , for example , was convinced of the need for Boards to earn a more ‘ commercial ’ rate of return , and his Board consistently had bigger surpluses and a higher level of self-financing than the others . |
| 16 | Most women had straighter backs than most men . |
| 17 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 18 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 19 | They had livelier personalities and danced roles such as Diana , goddess of the hunt , or Mercury , messenger of the gods . |
| 20 | Beneath the surface Scripture had deeper meanings to which a knowledge of nature might help to give access . |
| 21 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |
| 22 | The popular disquiet had deeper roots . |
| 23 | But the church of Canterbury had deeper roots , both in the kingdom of God and in the kingdom of England . |
| 24 | His mother 's legs , dangling over his head had pinker stockings , and thank God she always kept her knees together . |
| 25 | They were particularly important for the Magnox reactors , which used larger quantities of fuel and had bulkier structures to dismantle . |
| 26 | The first few instances were close to a goal , while later ones had larger values of x , y and y . |
| 27 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 28 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 29 | In general the wives of men in working class occupations had larger families , marrying earlier and giving birth earlier in marriage , with more conceptions and live births . |
| 30 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |