Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 2 | The only difference between now and the World Cup is that I have a better suntan . |
| 3 | All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has . |
| 4 | Recently I have increased the pump speed to 2 so that I have a higher turnover of water through the filter At this setting it will be turning over the content of the vat about 8 times an hour . |
| 5 | I think that she had a broader ranger of interest than Jane Austen . |
| 6 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 7 | sta sta staff comment comes out of there and that bit goes up then you have general skills and abilities and then below that you have a wider box which just says comments which will include a staff comment and may include a pupil comment as well cos because it 's signed by both at the bottom . |
| 8 | Trust that you have a deeper self which can handle your day better than ‘ you ’ can , and see what happens . |
| 9 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 10 | It implies that we have a higher proportion of the original corpus surviving than Bédier calculated , and therefore a more representative sample . |
| 11 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 12 | Now that we have a better understanding of the flight envelope it is time to explored Take the kite straight up , pull to make a 180-degree turn and you 've turned the kite nose-down into vertical dive . |
| 13 | The men on one floor would complain , for instance , that they had a thicker piece of barley to turn than the men on the floor above them : ‘ The top floor is not spreed [ spread ] as thick as this 'un ’ , and so on . |
| 14 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 15 | ( You should consider which way the demand and/or supply curves of money shift. ) ( a ) Banks find that they have a higher liquidity ratio than they need . |
| 16 | In some cases a liaison arrangement is made with an individual who will , in addition to the responsibilities given in ( 1 ) above , help with the training of Archive staff so that they have a better appreciation of the needs of particular users of the data . |
| 17 | Students who work with Reading Skills for the Social Sciences , are most likely to notice that they read with greater confidence and that they have a better command of academic/specialised vocabulary as a result of using the book . |
| 18 | This does not mean that they have a lower percentage fat content but that the fat present is partly mixed with the liquid that is retained in the cheese . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The fact that he had a lower sex drive than she did was n't considered unreasonable behaviour . |
| 23 | 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 . |