Example sentences of "[adv] have a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buenos Aires fair has a greater trade and international emphasis that usual this year , as it is being held in conjunction with the third of the rotating Silar ( Salón International del Libro Latino-Americano ) events . |
| 2 | Whole schools do not happen because the head alone has a greater view of the school , they occur because everyone 's view of the school is extended and embraced ( Southworth 1988:327 ) . |
| 3 | They sometimes get impatient with their counterpart , who necessarily has a longer term perspective and can not work fulltime because of a low salary . |
| 4 | Murray Kidd did a good job for us for three years , but he had obviously had a greater affinity for three quarter play than forwards . ’ |
| 5 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 6 | If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest . |
| 7 | He was the most recent recruit into H3 , and only had a Lower Second from Aston . |
| 8 | Part of the process has been to leave melodies incomplete , in an enigmatic and obscure fashion , sacrificing them to the technical prowess of symphonic ‘ textures ’ which perhaps have a greater degree of interest and a more intellectually appealing complexity . |
| 9 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
| 10 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 11 | The second is that the research is part of the total scientific oeuvre , and thus has a wider value . |
| 12 | The liquid mixture thus has a higher vapour pressure . |
| 13 | A smaller relative is the clouded leopard ( top right ) ; the snow leopard ( bottom right ) has adapted to life at up to 20,000ft ( 6,096 m ) and generally has a thicker coat . |
| 14 | ‘ A person who has symptoms of cardiovascular disease has much more to gain from reducing lipid levels [ because he or she already has a higher risk of dying from the disease ] than does someone with desirable lipid levels , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 16 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 17 | Having conquered the killer epidemics of infectious diseases it seems strange that we do not have a greater life expectancy in this sense too . |
| 18 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |
| 19 | They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis . |
| 20 | It promises to be a very close encounter , but North will not have a better chance to redress the balance against the runaway Ulster League winners . |
| 21 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 22 | But it 's a pity she did not have a better showcase for her talents . |
| 23 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 24 | Ramsey did not see why it should not have a wider interest as in Henson 's day . |
| 25 | The researchers believe that supramolecular structures such as micelles will prove particularly useful for the study of autopoietic phenomena because they allow extensive variation in structural organisation and can thus have a higher degree of functional complexity , for example being able to act as hosts to guest molecules , such as enzymes . |
| 26 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 27 | But given that you 're using public money , ought you not to have a tighter control over this very aspect ? |
| 28 | In Europe where the Napoleonic Code is dominant the investigating magistrate appears generally to have a stronger claim on the wreckage and records ( including flight recordings ) than the professional aircraft accident investigator . |
| 29 | Enabling service users and supporters — Staff noted that users tended to trust services more because of their relationship with their key worker and that service users generally had a greater say in what they required . |
| 30 | These generally had a larger proportion of advertising , and the higher the circulation , the greater was the amount of classified rather than display ads , which was the opposite of the nationals . |