Example sentences of "[noun] had a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bella had a better life once , I swear it … . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the Medical Research Council 's randomised trial of elderly hypertensive patients , men receiving atenolol had a higher death rate from cancer than those receiving diuretic or placebo . |
| 4 | After a particularly good dinner he had once dreamt that Eleanor had a younger sister of that age . |
| 5 | Figure 1 shows that distribution of authorship number was similar for Nature and Cell , although Cell had a higher proportion of studies with three to five authors . |
| 6 | Rostov thought of asking if his aide had a better idea , but Yuan only nodded again and stepped aside . |
| 7 | Jews had a better chance of effecting the transition if , for example , they were recruited into the army as children . |
| 8 | It was as if these verbal skirmishes had a deeper meaning . |
| 9 | Even The Builder 's apparently factual report was criticized by ‘ One who had peeped behind the scenes ’ for having implied that the earlier delegation of MPs supporting Scott had a lower status because it consisted of amateurs rather than professionals . |
| 10 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 11 | These jobs on the generation side of the industry had a larger engineering content than the Area Board jobs in distribution , and , in terms of assets and capital expenditure , were a weightier responsibility . |
| 12 | As far as the 1975 election is concerned VUPP had a greater proportion of seats than was warranted by its first preference vote for two reasons . |
| 13 | Those not receiving insulin therapy had a greater prevalence ( 45.6 per cent ) than those on insulin ( 30.7 per cent ) ( P<0.001 ) , although this relationship was not found in blacks in whom the prevalence of hypertension was similar regardless of the type of diabetic therapy . |
| 14 | Then Neva had a better idea ; she looked up to heaven and saw the mighty sun travelling across the sky overhead , darting his gold rays down like arrows . |
| 15 | By the end of PNP , parent-teacher liaison had a higher profile , but this was mainly due to the need to meet the requirements of the 1988 Education Act and to undertake consultations over school reorganization . |
| 16 | Standards were more likely to be improved , it was said , if parents had a greater choice of schools , and the new Technology Colleges were now to be among the choices on offer for those who lived in their catchment area . |
| 17 | In the abbot 's parlour Tutilo had a larger audience than Cadfael had bargained for , but welcomed it , or so it seemed , perhaps as leavening further the bleak reception he could expect from Herluin . |
| 18 | Within the rural high oil category only three ( small ) sectors more than 20 km from urban areas had a higher rank than west Thurso when the recent oil impact and child density scores were combined . |
| 19 | Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training . |
| 20 | Raasay had a smaller familiarity with the topics on which Dr Johnson was likely to speak . |
| 21 | Moreover , since Sparta depended on personal service from her allies , she had to consult them constantly , whereas Athens had a freer hand , because she had stopped holding congresses of her allies well before the beginning of the war . |
| 22 | Endoscopy showed that the miners had a higher incidence of gastritis than the men from the general population . |
| 23 | It was generally the case that working-class loyalists , especially those connected with the paramilitary organizations , fared less well in the election than more ‘ respectable ’ loyalists and Vanguard had a larger number of such candidates than the DUP . |
| 24 | But the other little girl had a better answer . |
| 25 | And it is surely time that the relatively under-resourced areas of England had a fairer allocation of resources to help fight their manifestly worse health and survival chances . |
| 26 | But if single-minded determination is a qualification for a stage career , Ruth had a better chance than most . |
| 27 | The breeze had a milder edge to it , the sea was calm , unlike her own thoughts . |
| 28 | Even the breeze had a keener edge . |
| 29 | RUNAWAY leaders of the GM Vauxhall Conference Wycombe had a better gate than ten Football League games — 4,120 . |
| 30 | Patients with ARF of 10 or less days duration had a lower median ( interquartile range [ IQR ] ) carbamylated haemoglobin concentration than those with a longer duration of ARF ( 29 [ 27–35 ] vs 72 [ 60–83 ] g VH/g Hb ; p<0.01 ) . |