Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [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	While other seagulls fly in order to catch food , he has higher aspirations .
5	Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do .
6	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 . ’
7	‘ 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 .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .

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