Example sentences of "[adj] have a [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had a greater impact on Moscow since it was followed by the declaration on the neutrality of Laos on 23 July adopted by the states which participated in the Geneva Conference . |
| 2 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 3 | A curriculum-based report is likely to have a greater chance of success because it shows benefits to pupils , the teachers and the school librarian i.e. the whole school . |
| 4 | A report by the London School of Economics suggested that the formation last year of Scottish Enterprise , a body linked to 13 local enterprise bodies with responsibility for investment and training , was likely to have a greater influence on the economy than the Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 5 | It will be much more stable and you are likely to have a greater degree of success . |
| 6 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 7 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 8 | There is scarcely any corporate-bond market in Japan , because issuing costs are too high ; but if new rules bring those costs down and the market revives , it is likely to have a wider range of yields than before . |
| 9 | If they know the performance is to be recorded , their practice of a roleplay situation has , a real purpose and their performance is likely to have a sharper edge to it . |
| 10 | Because radon is denser than air the lower floor is likely to have a higher concentration of radon ; on average bedrooms have 65 per cent of the concentration of living rooms . |
| 11 | Women are generally smaller then men but even if a man and a woman are the same height and weight , the woman is likely to have a smaller proportion of muscle . |
| 12 | As heavy , active drinkers are more likely to have a faster turnover of erythrocytes than reformed drinkers this might be put forward as a reason why our reformed drinkers did not have high pitted red cell counts . |
| 13 | Patency at 48 hours is about 85% and , interestingly , this is similar to the patency rate 48 hours after thrombolytic treatment , but the latter has a higher frequency of residual stenosis . |
| 14 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 15 | But one step down from this grander world view at a more personal level , we all have a simpler way of seeing things which still vigorously affects the shape and colour of our personalities and what contributions and responses we bring to our relationships with others . |
| 16 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 17 | They could also argue that in general there is frequently a difference between morality and legalism and that the former has a greater claim on their allegiance . |
| 18 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 19 | According to some scholars , parents education in general has a greater effect on survival than do income and access to health facilities combined . |
| 20 | The former have a lower degree of CD and are always thematic . |
| 21 | In some cultures there are still some established religious and social rituals surrounding death that help all the bereaved have a better understanding of how they are supposed to behave at certain times . |
| 22 | And not since Newsweek 's 1986 cover story ‘ The Marriage Crunch ’ , which professed that single women over 40 had a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than getting married , has a general-interest magazine article caused such discussion among women . |
| 23 | The Working Party felt it was very necessary to have a closer contact with Society members than was possible at present and that this could be best achieved by being in direct communication with them . |
| 24 | They both have a wider perspective of life and are blessed with good manners . |