Example sentences of "[coord] have [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plants may come into leaf earlier ( leading to frost damage ) , grow more slowly , have more branches and smaller leaves , produce fewer flowers , or have lower oil and protein contents . |
| 2 | ‘ We will build a partnership with tenants so that they can be represented on housing committees and housing association management committees and have greater influence over repairs and services and the local management of their own estates . ’ |
| 3 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 4 | Cycling would become far more attractive and have greater tourist potential if car movements were restricted , or alternative segregated facilities are built . |
| 5 | You will not only lose weight and have greater vitality , you will also find that you are able to think more dearly and are less likely to suffer from stress . |
| 6 | And they are also likely to be healthier in old age , and have better access to good diet and medical assistance . |
| 7 | Since then , cavity walls have been the norm as they offer better resistance to rain and damp penetration and have better sound and thermal characteristics . |
| 8 | These will be much stronger and have better flowers than the numerous spindly bits at the ends would produce , if left unpruned . |
| 9 | They are more likely to be low rank and part time , are lower paid , and have higher Ph.D unemployment than men . |
| 10 | The first — the male voyeurism or ‘ disco-bar ’ hypothesis — suggests that males are more vigilant than females and have higher peeking rates because they are on the look-out for promiscuous copulations with females ( as well as watching for predators ) . |
| 11 | In type B males are smaller ( they mature earlier than females ) and have higher adult mortality . |
| 12 | As a translator he was modest , exhorting and beseeching those of his readers ‘ who are better seen in the Scriptures than I , and have higher gifts of grace to interpret the Scripture ’ to correct his work . |
| 13 | Particularly when VATable goods are usually taken on firm sale and have tighter credit periods than bookselling . |
| 14 | Hrdlicka sums up the value of the longbones in sexing by saying that in the male they are longer , heavier and have larger attachment areas for muscles , ( including the linea aspera , crests , tuberosities and impressions ) ( Stewart , 1947 ) . |
| 15 | Ducks are generally smaller and have shorter necks and legs than geese or swans . |
| 16 | Other strategies might be more forgiving and have shorter memories . |
| 17 | Very hard to distinguish from Crested Lark in the field , but tends to be smaller and have shorter bill , more conspicuous spots on breast and greyer underwing . |
| 18 | ( Larkin 1979 , p. 75 ) since they can be subject to little planning control and have easier access than other rural housing tenures . |
| 19 | Many of the weapons systems that we use now are bigger than before and have longer ranges , and so on . |
| 20 | Other small birds like the house sparrow can follow a similar format but have squarer crowns to the head . |
| 21 | Three groups of plants appeared that possessed such structures and all three have descendants that have survived without much change — clubmosses which resemble mosses but have stiffer stems ; horsetails which grow in waste patches and ditches and have stems encircled at intervals with rings of needle-like leaves ; and ferns . |
| 22 | With non-ionic detergents they have the safety characteristics of QACs but have better performance and do not affect beer head retention . |