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

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1 Blue Velvet has had more effect on me than anything musically — it 's that idea of everything superficially being nice and chummy but underneath there 's something sinister .
2 Formed in 1879 , the cricket club has had more success in the past decade than in the previous century Vaux North West Durham League champions for the past four seasons .
3 The North has had more than its fair share of the squalor of industrial inheritance .
4 Undoubtedly British official statistics would have advanced more rapidly , particularly in the use of sampling techniques , if Bowley had had more to do with them . "
5 Since the peak of West Indian migration occurred well before that of Asian migration , West Indians have had more opportunity to form families and have children who are , of course , born in Britain .
6 ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . )
7 In recent years the amateur actor has had more opportunity for classes in theatre work , including voice and movement training as well as performance and directing skills .
8 American history aside , Madame Chardin 's had more than adequately prepared her and Katherine set her sights on university , on Columbia , or Radcliffe or Sarah Laurence .
9 The leisured classes have had more attention than they deserve .
10 LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years .
11 Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle .
12 Deborah ( Chapter 2 ) mentions how advertising ‘ pretties up periods ’ , and it is a fact that since putting ads on television for sanitary products , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has had more complaints than for any other product , which says a lot about the public 's discomfort and embarrassment where periods are concerned .
13 Since 1967 , Franco-Soviet space co-operation ( between CNES and Intercosmos ) has proceeded smoothly , whereas French-US co-operation has had more downs than ups , with CNES resentment at some NASA attitudes of superiority becoming a mutually reinforcing vicious circle .
14 But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others .
15 A lot of athletes have had more natural ability than he has , but Mac has persevered .
16 Judo is a sport in which Britain has had more than its fair share of world champions .
17 However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products .
18 To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles .
19 Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination .
20 It emerged that , if anything Whites had had more such experiences than Blacks , and Asians less than both .
21 However , total enrolment fell between 1980 and 1986 , suggesting that girls have had more opportunity to go to school under war conditions than boys .
22 ‘ The last man I sent to Winchester has had more success in gaining entrance to the castle than the others , ’ explained fitzCount .
23 City have had more than their fair share of great players : Gordon Banks , Peter Shilton , Gary Lineker , Alan Smith , Gary McAllister , Mike Newell — pity they sold 'em all !
24 In the crucial aspect of image-building , the TDC has had more to do than its regional partner in trying to alter the widely-held perception of Teesside as an area dominated by smoking chimneys .
25 As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’
26 In his career , Nicholas has had more agents than Rangers Pools .
27 It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— !
28 Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over .
29 Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more .
30 My your Mum 's had more pricks than a secondhand dart board .
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