Example sentences of "[pron] have [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 2 | I had grander plans for my future than that . |
| 3 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 4 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 5 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions , complete the following sentence , ‘ If I had bigger breasts , the first thing I 'd do would be … , ’ and send your answers in on a fax with coupons from any three GenTech products . |
| 6 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 7 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no one in this world in whom I have greater trust . |
| 9 | " I have better things to do . " |
| 10 | I have better things to do . |
| 11 | The Boro boss said : ‘ I have better things to do than discuss idle gossip . |
| 12 | ‘ I have deeper feelings than ever you could comprehend , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I have further questions to ask you . ’ |
| 14 | AEA 's tyre pyrolyser uses high temperatures and an oxygen-free environment to decompose tyres chemically , giving a cheaper process which has lower emissions of nitrogen-oxide and sulphur-oxide than incineration . |
| 15 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 16 | Instead of glass rovings , the carbon tows are mounted on reels at the start of the process , and these are drawn through vinylester resin which has better wetting characteristics for the carbon . |
| 17 | The Job Training Scheme has been replaced by Employment Training which has better provision for married women . |
| 18 | However , all Shetlanders seem to agree that classes are tied up with wealth and occupation ; and most Shetlanders agree that class is a concept which has greater salience in life outside Shetland and therefore among incomers . |
| 19 | Although the PTR is the measure on which decisions about resource allocation are often based , it is the size of the class as taught which has greater implications for children 's learning experience . |
| 20 | Now , they can work towards a qualification which has greater value when it comes to looking for a job or a place in further education . |
| 21 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 22 | For fine detailed work , you could possibly try using a rigger brush , which has longer hair and therefore stores up more paint . |
| 23 | For fine detailed work , you could possibly try using a rigger brush , which has longer hair and therefore stores up more paint . |
| 24 | Pale lower half of face distinguishes duck from all except ducks of Red-crested Pochard ( p. 57 ) , which has white wing-bar , and Long-tailed Duck ( p. 65 ) , which has shorter bill , sometimes with a narrow orange stripe , and much whiter underparts . |
| 25 | Clutching herself , she skips to the door from rug to rug , like a Scottish country dancer , across the landing and into the bathroom , which has smaller windows and is warmer . ) |
| 26 | It could be , for instance , that every tenth house in a street coincides with a building plan which has larger houses at intervals and these are over-sampled . |
| 27 | Nobody had greater faith in the qualities of Alex James than Alex James himself — not even Herbert Chapman , and that is saying something . ’ |
| 28 | At first , the trade preferred wild-caught pelts , which had denser underfur and better resistance to fading . |
| 29 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |
| 30 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |