Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |
2 | H pylori infected subjects had higher gastrin values than uninfected subjects , overall ( 55.3 ( 5.9 ) ; 36.0 ( 1.8 ) pmol/l ; p<0.001 ) and in subjects without atrophy ( 45.3 ( 4.2 ) ; 36.0 ( 1.8 ) pmol/l ; p<0.03 ) . |
3 | These subjects had higher mean ( SD ) serum gastrin concentrations than old subjects without atrophy and young subjects ( 61.8 ( 9.2 ) ; 40.0 ( 2.9 ) ; 36.8 ( 2.3 ) pmol/l respectively ; p<0.001 ) . |
4 | By 1929 , the National WEA reported that ten of its sixteen Districts had lower branch membership totals than in 1924 , averaging 59% of all enrolled students , which represented a decline of at least 20% on the 1924 figure . |
5 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
6 | The analysis of arrest rates ( males aged 11–35 ) showed that in the whole city , Blacks had higher rates than Whites , but when the areas were grouped into those with less than 10 per cent . |
7 | The southerners had longer legs and were generally of a less heavy conformation ; their skin was thicker , their coat less silky and they were slower to mature . |
8 | Lesser companies had smaller qualifications , if any . |
9 | In a national survey , ‘ forward planners ’ in all classes had lower fertility ( and family size clustered more tightly around an average of two children ) , and were more likely to use effective methods of contraception . |
10 | There was a significant social class difference ( 53% from non-manual social classes had higher qualifications compared with 32% in manual social classes ; difference 13.1% to 28.7% ) . |
11 | Families had greater incomes to spend , and whilst the relative proportion of income spent on foodstuffs has not increased greatly , the absolute sums spent have risen as a result . |
12 | Similarly , participants who reported negative support from their closest friend or relative or financial difficulties had higher rates of sickness absence . |
13 | But Mr Blunkett said patients had no way of knowing why some consultants had longer queues for treatment . |
14 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
15 | But the television executives had higher motives . |
16 | Acads had cheerier news on the casualty front , when Rob Wainwright , their international back-row forward , attended training on Thursday , though he is not yet fit to play . |
17 | The monomorphic n = 13 and n = 18 populations had thinner shells than the heteromorphic ones . |
18 | Out study is broadly in agreement with those previously reported observations , with the exception that our patients had longer durations of contraction compared with the controls in contrast to the findings of Gill et al . |
19 | In general the wives of men in working class occupations had larger families , marrying earlier and giving birth earlier in marriage , with more conceptions and live births . |
20 | ( lighter and darker areas , respectively ) , it was found than in the darker areas Whites had higher arrest rates than Blacks . |
21 | Émigré socialist leaders had greater difficulty communicating with Russia . |
22 | Men had higher incomes and savings than women . |
23 | Little boat activity in heavy seas and cold winds and shore anglers had better results . |
24 | Wallerstein and Kelly ( 1980 ) found that ‘ only ’ children had greater exposure to parental conflicts and pressure during the divorcing period than children with brothers and sisters although many children did not consider their siblings helpful . |
25 | If children had greater access to a public voice , if they were able to contribute to the social meanings with which we make sense of our world , the result would not be a more ‘ childish ’ set of images . |
26 | Because they saw no way out of the situation for themselves , they held to the belief that if their children had better opportunities , particularly education , it would enable their children to have far better working lives . |
27 | One reason for this relative neglect may be that so many earlier surveys gave such clear and unequivocal results : at virtually every stage of education , by virtually every criterion of achievement , middle-class children had higher levels of achievement than working-class children . |
28 | ichter et al , in their large study of oesophageal manometry in 95 volunteers , showed that age had no effect on lower oesophageal sphincter but older volunteers had higher amplidues and longer durations of contraction in the distal oesophagus than the younger ones . |
29 | The median serum pepsinogen I concentration ( ng/ml ) was higher in the H pylori positive uraemic patients ( 352 , range 280–653 ) than in the H pylori negative uraemic patients ( 165 , range 86–337 ) ( p<0.01 ) and both these groups had higher values than the non-uraemic patients of corresponding H pylori status ( p<0.05 for each ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
30 | Those without hiatus hernias had heavier smoking histories overall ( median 26 pack years ) than those with hiatus hernias ( median 9 pack years ) ( p<0.002 ) ( Fig 5 ) . |