Example sentences of "[noun prp] had more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 3 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 4 | Whitaker had more reason than most , since Morton was once his apprentice on the Daily Star . |
| 5 | Whereas Guedron had considerable sense of drama , Boësset had more talent for lyricism and the love-song , and it was his path rather than that of his father-in-law which was followed by the younger composers , of whom Francois Richard the elder ( d. 1650 ) and Étienne Moulinié ( c. 1600–after 1669 ) were the most gifted . |
| 6 | John Durbeyfield had more pride in his new-found blood than energy or health . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen , freak , that DK had more bottle than Express Dairies and if you — ’ Ace stopped and lowered her arm . |
| 8 | But Hendry had more reasons to smile as he reached the mid-session interval with a vital 3-1 advantage . |
| 9 | SSDs had more knowledge of the number of disabled people in their area than had housing departments , and they were more likely to have specific policies on meeting their needs . |
| 10 | The pair fell over the Lions ' goal line with four arms wrapped round the ball and there was a moment when Bunce had more contact on the ball . |
| 11 | If Britain had more allies , they argued , it would need fewer armaments . |
| 12 | Only Fielding had more penance to exact . |
| 13 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 14 | We joined the crowd before our handiwork was noticed and watched as Mary and Albert had more confetti thrown over them as they stood on the threshold of the church . |
| 15 | Wendy had more intelligence than her pleasant calm looks might have led the casual observer to suspect . |
| 16 | Wendy had more idea of what to expect , she had helped to look after her little brothers at home , but it was still hard work having a baby of her own . |
| 17 | Oxford had more problems than Cambridge in settling their crew , suffering the trauma of the sudden death during training of John Hebbes , in whose memory their boat is named . |
| 18 | Cambridge , he was convinced , were the better technicians ; Oxford had more horse power . |
| 19 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 20 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 21 | So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round . |
| 22 | As a predominantly passenger line , the L & NWR had more locos and more passenger carriages than its contemporaries . |
| 23 | Northumberland had more use for him ; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son . |
| 24 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 25 | I think at the time the RAF had more volunteers than it could cope with and much weeding out was done , but in his case he blotted his copybook good and proper by doing a bit of unauthorised low flying over a south Devonshire town , frightening all the old ladies . |
| 26 | Former Royal Shakespeare Company actress Charlotte Cornwell had more luck when she was awarded £11,000 to compensate for a vile personal attack on her in the " News of the World " over her performance in a new television series . |
| 27 | In all of Asia only India had more cases — and India 's population is 15 times Thailand 's . |
| 28 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 29 | His flat in London had more personality than this place . |
| 30 | Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra had more fun than the audience in the comedy western Four for Texas ( 1963 ) , and in 1964 Bing Crosby joined Sinatra , Martin and Davis for Robin and the Seven Hoods . |