Example sentences of "[noun] have the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |
| 2 | The wedge cushion has the further advantage of allowing the patient to see his legs without effort . |
| 3 | The Midlander has the better claim for the title of Typical Irishman . |
| 4 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 5 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 6 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 7 | Boswell 's counterpoint to this recitative divulges that among their books the Mackinnons had the shorter version of Johnson 's own Dictionary , and that , notwithstanding the merry and warm respect they received from the household , the place began to feel like a prison on account of the adverse weather . |
| 8 | The Dark Elves had the greater number and their allies were fell . |
| 9 | In the 1983 election , more electors thought the Conservatives had the better policies than actually voted for the party . |
| 10 | Previous results ( including a late penalty to give france a consolation goal in Spains last match ) meant England had the better goal diff , and could progress with a draw . |
| 11 | Both approaches employ process models : DFD are business-oriented but Petri nets have the better formal basis . |
| 12 | Molluscs have the lower part of the body developed as a muscular foot , which may variously function locomotion , digging or swimming . |
| 13 | The sighting dominant eye may be , but is not necessarily , the eye having the greater acuity . |
| 14 | Coventry had the better of the first half , with Ndlovu and Robson demanding good saves from Seaman , while Smith had a shot blocked on the line by Winterburn . |
| 15 | ‘ Kanza had the longer legs . ’ |
| 16 | With increasing thermal energy the chain ends will be able to rotate more readily than the rest of the chain and the more chain ends a sample has the greater the contribution to the free volume when these begin moving , consequently the glass transition temperature is lowered . |
| 17 | It is a fallacy to think that the more information an organisation has the better will be the decisions . |
| 18 | Most New Yorkers probably feel that Egypt is part of Europe , and wo n't want a dirty old European stone cluttering their favourite wilding ground ; others , the more politically correct , will feel that Egyptians have the greater moral claim because Arabs are slightly blacker than they are . |
| 19 | In few studies have the higher moments been used to advantage , the principal exception being that of Sly ( 1977 , 1978 ) who used the skewness — kurtosis interrelationships to recognize differing environmental energy levels in deposits of the Great Lakes ( Fig. 3.1() ) . |
| 20 | Psychoanalytic theory has the further merit of offering explanations about why specific individuals and groups within advanced , differentiated societies develop a variety of different attitudes to religion . |
| 21 | To measure the power in a load , whichever of the movable or pair of fixed coils has the lower resistance is connected essentially or actually in series with the load as indicated in figure 7.2(b) , so that the load current is essentially or actually carried . |
| 22 | ‘ The more information people have the better . |
| 23 | ‘ The more information people have the better . |
| 24 | Indeed , we often find that older workers themselves believe that younger people have the greater right to a job , particularly in times of high unemployment . |
| 25 | Cambridge struck 38½ to Oxford 's 40 in the first minute and despite the Light Blues having the better of the tide , the crews were level at Beverley Brook . |
| 26 | He recognised the truest limits of the medium in which he worked , never allowed technical virtuosity to have the better of the central aim of significant composition , and established a balanced style which remains the most perfect model of the line-engraver 's art . |
| 27 | The PLP could conduct a poll of its members to test which man had the greater support . |
| 28 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 29 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 30 | I think Oxford have the better stride , but quite clearly they lack the power that Cambridge have . |