Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj -er] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 2 | Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination . |
| 3 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 4 | When we apply these views to early childhood we begin to have a clearer picture of deaf children 's future . |
| 5 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 6 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 7 | In practice we know have a greater quantity of food , more choice of different foods with less seasonal variation and of better quality than every before , all at a cheaper price . |
| 8 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 9 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 10 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 11 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 12 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 13 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 14 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 15 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 16 | Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted . |
| 17 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 18 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 19 | Firstly , patients with sporadic adenomatous colorectal polyps are known to have a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer , but the possible modulation of this risk by hereditary or environmental factors will naturally vary from subject to subject . |
| 20 | There , the team would attempt to have a narrower range of appeal but a greater oneness with the clients to whom they are trying to appeal . |
| 21 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 22 | Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed . |
| 23 | Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil , and therefore give lower readings . |
| 24 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 26 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 27 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 28 | This is no doubt partly a reflection of the way in which people with bank accounts do have a wider range of credit options open to them than people without . |
| 29 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 30 | and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though |