Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj -er] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I had a firmer grasp of the industrial development of West Ham and the distinct political culture it had witnessed , particularly during the 1890s . |
| 2 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 3 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag . |
| 8 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 9 | There is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal friendship and gratitude. * |
| 10 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 11 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 12 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 13 | you 've a better chance of coming between her and Pie than I have . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 16 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 17 | I think that she had a broader ranger of interest than Jane Austen . |
| 18 | You have a greater degree of control on it . ’ |
| 19 | You have a greater sensation of gliding through the air . |
| 20 | In every case , you have a better chance of being considered if you are able to put your performance on record . |
| 21 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 22 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 23 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 24 | Whereas if you go for a degree of inequality within the countryside , A you will have , you might get the same , same tax yield because you , you have a higher rate of tax on the rich and their revenue 's going up so that tax revenue will increase |
| 25 | Only after February will we have a clearer indication of the European equivalence . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ In Southampton we had a higher incidence of bad debts because of the size of our clients . |
| 28 | ‘ It is unlikely that the business could be self-supporting as we have a higher level of direct and indirect supervision for our employees . |
| 29 | It implies that we have a higher proportion of the original corpus surviving than Bédier calculated , and therefore a more representative sample . |
| 30 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |