Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 2 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
| 3 | If she has older brothers and sisters , then the idea of sharing will be less of a shock for her , although even in these cases children cling to those things they think of as theirs . |
| 4 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 5 | If she makes an old-fashioned choice and lovingly tends a garden and a bumper crop of children , she rates louder Hosannas than ever before . |
| 6 | She runs Greener Gifts Ltd , from her home in Chipping Sodbury , near Bristol and will sell you 36 square feet of woodland for £25 . |
| 7 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 8 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 9 | As a forum it involves larger numbers of working-class men and women than any other form of adult education in Britain , and it appeals to them as representatives of a wider movement of working people , banded together into continuing and accountable organisations . |
| 10 | What is more , it produces further ills . |
| 11 | While other seagulls fly in order to catch food , he has higher aspirations . |
| 12 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 13 | He has better things to do than hang around the Tower answering idle questions whilst good men are killed and the murderer walks scot free . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 15 | With its low market share it has higher costs than the rival , and so , by pricing to give its rival a zero NPV , it can only earn a negative NPV itself . |
| 16 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 17 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 18 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 19 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 20 | But he wants firmer guarantees on the status of the Hungarian minority , in particular , group rights rather than individual rights for all Romanians . |
| 21 | He wants tighter controls on the sales . |
| 22 | He wants tougher powers for the police . |
| 23 | The NI has always been concerned to point out what is wrong with the Green Revolution : that it favours richer farmers who can afford its high-yield seeds and extra fertiliser ; that its ecological impact is worrying . |
| 24 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 25 | The redemption will be funded using cash from operations and earnings in the quarter ended December 31 1992 and the company says it intends further redemptions of the 10% debentures throughout 1993 — after April 1 , some $427m of the 10% debt will remain outstanding . |
| 26 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 27 | Its distribution is certainly more restricted than the Moorhen 's , since it requires larger areas of water for breeding . |
| 28 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 29 | The algorithm examines every shallow state , which can be constructed by a short path from start , before it examines deeper states . |
| 30 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |