Example sentences of "[adj] have a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two noddies are fairly similar , but the lesser has a longer beak and the brown , as its name suggests , has a paler brown back . |
| 2 | This had a greater impact on Moscow since it was followed by the declaration on the neutrality of Laos on 23 July adopted by the states which participated in the Geneva Conference . |
| 3 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 4 | The English have a greater talent than any other people for creating an agreeable family life ; that is why it is such a threat to their artistic and intellectual life . |
| 5 | Er there are interests all over an and some er have a higher value er er and some have a lower value but they are all related erm so it 's not possible to regard er a contest solely as an isolated advers adversarial struggle where you 're weighing up the rel the relative forces , the relative military capabilities that exist , you have to consider a whole range of political , economic and strategic effects of , of your , your , your action . |
| 6 | As I explained in the previous chapter , there is no export zone anywhere that has a good record on linkages , but few have a worse record than the maquila industry . |
| 7 | A curriculum-based report is likely to have a greater chance of success because it shows benefits to pupils , the teachers and the school librarian i.e. the whole school . |
| 8 | A report by the London School of Economics suggested that the formation last year of Scottish Enterprise , a body linked to 13 local enterprise bodies with responsibility for investment and training , was likely to have a greater influence on the economy than the Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 9 | It will be much more stable and you are likely to have a greater degree of success . |
| 10 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 11 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 12 | It happened to be my birthday — I 've never had or am likely to have a better birthday dinner , I do n't mind being a year older every year for this ! |
| 13 | Why is this coalfield likely to have a better future than that in North East England ? |
| 14 | There is scarcely any corporate-bond market in Japan , because issuing costs are too high ; but if new rules bring those costs down and the market revives , it is likely to have a wider range of yields than before . |
| 15 | If they know the performance is to be recorded , their practice of a roleplay situation has , a real purpose and their performance is likely to have a sharper edge to it . |
| 16 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 17 | Because radon is denser than air the lower floor is likely to have a higher concentration of radon ; on average bedrooms have 65 per cent of the concentration of living rooms . |
| 18 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 19 | Mr claims for a five year replacement cycle , but I consider the vehicle is likely to have a lower mileage than is usual and that the replacement cycle should be one of eight years . |
| 20 | Fourth year pupils were the principal subjects of the study as they would be members of their school for a full school year and were likely to have a lower absentee rate than the fifth year . |
| 21 | Women are generally smaller then men but even if a man and a woman are the same height and weight , the woman is likely to have a smaller proportion of muscle . |
| 22 | As heavy , active drinkers are more likely to have a faster turnover of erythrocytes than reformed drinkers this might be put forward as a reason why our reformed drinkers did not have high pitted red cell counts . |
| 23 | Patency at 48 hours is about 85% and , interestingly , this is similar to the patency rate 48 hours after thrombolytic treatment , but the latter has a higher frequency of residual stenosis . |
| 24 | They would also move closer to have a better look . |
| 25 | The political élite paid it more attention than it did radio , even though the latter had a greater importance insofar as size of audience was concerned . |
| 26 | King William IV had a younger brother , the Duke of Kent , who had married Victoire , the sister of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg , but William disliked Victoire the mother of Victoria , born at Kensington Palace on 25th . |
| 27 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 28 | But one step down from this grander world view at a more personal level , we all have a simpler way of seeing things which still vigorously affects the shape and colour of our personalities and what contributions and responses we bring to our relationships with others . |
| 29 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 30 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |