Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late seventies , the authorities allowed many refugees to stay , but now they 've adopted a tougher policy . |
| 2 | They 've got a better lock . |
| 3 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 4 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 5 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 6 | Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking . |
| 7 | He worried persistently about the poverty of his social life and bitterly complained : By June 1949 they had reached a further stage in their relationship . |
| 8 | They have enjoyed a higher level of formal education than their older colleagues , some of them possessing degrees in chemistry or biology from universities or polytechnics . |
| 9 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 10 | Whereas it seems unlikely that these concerns have penetrated school syllabuses , it is possible , given the much greater autonomy of institutions of higher education , that they have had a greater influence on higher education syllabuses . |