Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less appears to be known about whether his mood swings were severe enough to justify manic-depression as a primary diagnosis ; but Smart himself gives us some clue when he writes : ‘ For I have a greater compass of mirth and melancholy than another . ’ |
| 2 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 3 | You have a greater sensation of gliding through the air . |
| 4 | The way you move , sit and stand will show you have a greater body awareness and pride . |
| 5 | Evening up the odds : using a stick against a knifeman , you have a greater range |
| 6 | You have a greater degree of control on it . ’ |
| 7 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 8 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled . |
| 9 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 10 | We have a greater chance of being able to flush this assassin out . |
| 11 | That means our customers are in a better position to serve their own customers and we have a greater opportunity to increase our share of their business . |
| 12 | Not only do they have a greater opportunity to commit their favoured types of crimes , but they have the capacity to influence which of their behaviours will be regarded as corporate crimes in the first place . |
| 13 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
| 14 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
| 15 | They have a greater host waiting . |
| 16 | As one experienced observer of the trade put it , ‘ The companies which suitable candidates work for consider that they have a greater need of their executives ’ services nowadays than the trade at large has . ’ |
| 17 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 18 | I am keen for them to have a greater opportunity to develop both their working and their family lives . |
| 19 | Aluminium likes silicon : it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else . |
| 20 | Not feeding for a couple of days before hand clears their systems and helps to make sure your fish eat the remedy , so that it has a greater effect and avoids the problem of rotting herbs polluting the water . |
| 21 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 22 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 23 | Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence . |
| 24 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 25 | It had a greater impact on prices than previous upswings of comparable magnitude . |
| 26 | He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men ; Vologsky could take a full three minutes longer in the centrifuge chamber than any other member of his squadron . |
| 27 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 28 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |