Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Recent work in the eastern suburbs on the later winged-corridor building has added a further complexity , revealing an important sequence of later Iron-Age ditched enclosures alongside a stream , in one of which lay a two-phase timber round house associated with pottery , slag , bone and worked flints . |
2 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for Teesside travellers . |
3 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for passengers with a new timetable shake-up to take effect from May . |
4 | One of my Oscars has developed a lower jaw which is twisted . |
5 | Japan 's growing influence as a member of the Western camp has encouraged a greater questioning within Japan of how far to accept what the West has to offer . |
6 | The Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award has had a happier track record . |
7 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
8 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
9 | Hanning has produced a smoother result than repeated medians alone . |
10 | The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car . |
11 | The Department of Employment research programme has produced a rosier picture than local studies or the experience of local homeworking campaigns . |
12 | This study has shown a larger proportion of electrocardiographic changes ( 91% ) than previous studies , even though some of these included sinus tachycardia as an arrhythmia . |
13 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
14 | The development of interest rate and currency swaps has offered a further fillip to the eurobond market , by increasing borrowers ' flexibility in issuance , as well as enabling them to profit from comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets ( see Hammond , 1987 ) . |
15 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |
16 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
17 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
18 | Since this meeting , Richard had had a further debate with his conscience . |
19 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
20 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
21 | Yet , as we have noted , more recent work has adopted a wider focus and a more analytical approach to the subject . |
22 | Recent work has suggested a greater production of CRP stimulating cytokines from mononuclear leukocytes in Crohn 's disease patient . |
23 | IBM has found a lower limit to the width of the line that can be burned in the absorption band . |
24 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
25 | Only the tertiary sector has maintained a larger share of the cake , an average of over 4 per cent during the period from 1978/79 and 1986/87 , compared with 1.04 per cent for general education in the decade from 1978 to 1989 ( see Figure 9.4 ) . |
26 | Seldom can fate have played a stranger trick . |
27 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
28 | Although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
29 | As some H 2 receptor antagonist maintenance trials have reported a greater proportion of symptomatic ulcer recurrences in patients randomised to placebo , it would be easy to overestimate the placebo relapse rate . |
30 | Allied 's Tetley Walker subsidiary have established a further subdivision , Peter Walker , catering exclusively for their historic outlets , while Grand Metropolitan 's Group Estates Director recently assured the Georgian Group that ‘ we will always consider historic and aesthetic considerations in all our refurbishments . ’ |