Example sentences of "[noun] have a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 2 | Kirsty 's story has a happier ending . |
| 3 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 4 | Psion has a softer approach . |
| 5 | Though this makes the two words par and key , the word park has a stronger activation than either par or key . ’ |
| 6 | The employment and income created directly and indirectly by Scotch Whisky companies and their associated supplier chains has a further impact on the UK economy . |
| 7 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 8 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 9 | Tofu is available fresh or in long-life packs ; the fresh variety has a firmer texture . |
| 10 | Only the musk ox has a denser covering of hair . |
| 11 | The phenomenon reflects not only the difficulties of part-time recruitment in an area like Oxfordshire which lacks a large urban and industrial base , but also the fact that the Modular Course has a better chance of retaining and increasing such students than conventional courses ( Figure 2.2 ) . |
| 12 | In the ‘ spatial division of labour ’ , the labour-intensive mass-production branch has a weaker role than in the 1960s and is partly replaced by TNC investment in the Third World . |
| 13 | Second , the legislative branch has a weaker basis of comparison ( than shareholders in a market firm ) on which to judge the efficiency of the present administration . |
| 14 | IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p |
| 15 | West Germany has a greater proportion of people economically active but they start work later and retire earlier than do workers in Pakistan . |
| 16 | Earlier work which suggests that West Germany has a greater capability than Britain to deal with structural industrial crises through the cooperation of the state , employers , unions and financiers will be pursued in relation to the chemicals industry . |
| 17 | Senior management capability has a greater impact . |
| 18 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 19 | Also , with less length of board in the water , the board becomes more manoeuvrable ( just as a short car has a tighter lock than a long estate model ) . |
| 20 | However , the full implications of the Act in terms of capital expenditure , existing plant life and product costs will not be fully apparent until industry has a clearer idea about how the new law will be enforced . |
| 21 | IN ONE important aspect , baseball has a better arrangement than cricket . |
| 22 | This will not benefit the buyer if all the shares are taken up when the transferor is compelled to make a pre-emptive offer , but it does not follow that all of them will be taken up and , if not , the transferee has a better claim to those shares not taken up than has the transferor . |
| 23 | Studies of the nucleic acid binding activities of retroviral MoMuLV NCp10 and avian pp12 indicate that NC protein has a higher affinity for single stranded DNA and RNA than for double stranded DNA ( 15 , 23–24 ) . |
| 24 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 25 | It has been shown that a potency of a homoeopathic remedy has a higher viscosity than a straight dilution , without succussion , of the same remedy repeated the same number of times , suggesting that large molecules are present in the potency which do not occur in the straight dilution . |
| 26 | Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years . |
| 27 | Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications . |
| 28 | Daisy watched an expectant Trace Coley re-arranging her Panama in the driving mirror of her father 's Rolls as Brigadier Canford put on his spectacles to have a better look . |
| 29 | Bella had a better life once , I swear it … . |
| 30 | In another study a group of children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at high risk of sudden death ( history of loss of consciousness , family history of sudden death ) who were given amiodarone had a better prognosis than an untreated group at low risk . |