Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting interpretation of the couplet is no spectacular advance on the appropriate sense many readers attain very quickly ; but our investigation has built a surer foundation for the validity of the interpretation . |
| 2 | In the week that council leaders meet for the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane , he has made a further appeal for a less confrontational relationship , and one which puts people and the quality of services before politics . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for Teesside travellers . |
| 4 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for passengers with a new timetable shake-up to take effect from May . |
| 5 | The rewards will be improvements in the quality of relationships and in the effectiveness of the school , measuring how the school has become a nicer place for all , calls for changes to be shown across a range of measures : |
| 6 | The current rage for portable computing has prompted a greater need for packages to help tired executives move their files from notebook to desktop . |
| 7 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 8 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 9 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |
| 10 | However , there are no easy solutions to the problems of an area such as the Highlands within the constraints of the existing national economic structure , and there is no certainty that small-scale industries would have provided a better base for employment growth . |
| 11 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 12 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 13 | The paper selected was almost inevitably the Sunday Telegraph , which had displayed a greater sympathy for the Biafran cause than most . |
| 14 | As always , Lucien 's dreams had invented a happier history for him . |
| 15 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 16 | Since the mid 1970s the monetary authorities of the UK and other countries have felt a greater concern for the domestic monetary consequences of intervention in the foreign exchange market . |
| 17 | Following the increase for the eldest eligible child last April , we have made a further increase for all children in October , with corresponding increases in income-related benefit rates to make sure that the less well-off families also gained to the same extent . |