Example sentences of "[verb] had more [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party . |
4 | In his career , Nicholas has had more agents than Rangers Pools . |
5 | ‘ The last man I sent to Winchester has had more success in gaining entrance to the castle than the others , ’ explained fitzCount . |
6 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
9 | Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone . |
10 | ( 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 . ) |
11 | When you erm look back on it now , do you wish you 'd had more education at all when you were younger ? |
12 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
13 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
14 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
15 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
16 | If only I 'd had more time . |
17 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
18 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
19 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
20 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
21 | And we could n't have had more support . |
22 | This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith . |
23 | I should have had more faith in you . ’ |
24 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
25 | ‘ The supporters here should have had more success . |
26 | East Germany 's environmental plight may have had more publicity than that of any other East European country , but its neighbours Poland and Czechoslovakia are almost equally high in the pollution league . |
27 | He may have had more experience outside court than I have because I 've had none . |
28 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
29 | ‘ I suppose we must have had more help than I remember , ’ he said after a while . |
30 | Sixty two only , you know , not that long after the War had ended and to the lament that nobody got killed you know you might have had more chances e of success if they had all got killed . |