Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1668 Fromanteel himself had moved to The Hague , where he had earlier trading and perhaps family connections . |
| 2 | We 're now attempting to install , or produce those systems so that we have better information . |
| 3 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 4 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 5 | Some of these ideas are , that girls are more , social , and ‘ suggestible ’ than boys ; that they have lower achievement motivation and self-esteem ; that they are better at rote learning and repetition , and worse at higher-level cognitive tasks , involving responses inhibition and analysis ; that they are more ‘ auditory ’ and less ‘ visual ’ ; and that they are more affected by heredity and less by environment . |
| 6 | Try playing lemmings with the PC 's beeper , and then try it out on a machine that is sound-equipped , and you 'll never want to play it again until you have better sound . |
| 7 | Do not use this exercise if you have lower back problems . |
| 8 | If you have further information , send the fleetest messenger you can hire to my manor at Leighton . |
| 9 | As a result of our action , real earnings are rising and we have lower interest rates , lower mortgage rates , lower inflation and the right circumstances for recovery . |
| 10 | That he did not himself fly away is strong evidence for this belief , especially if predators prefer to attack lone birds , and we have further reason for thinking that the bird believes that . |
| 11 | Several minutes even supposing we had faster-than-light propulsion . |
| 12 | Our results would support this viewpoint as men where found to be more lateralised than women and they have poorer language ability , but superior visual ability . |
| 13 | Certainly greater reliance on occupational benefits will disadvantage women until they have better pay and opportunities within the labour market . |
| 14 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 15 | In my view the jugular podge would n't show up so much if he had longer hair , but he never gives that coarse mousy matting of his any Lebensraum . |
| 16 | The RAF 's aircraft replacement programmes tend to be more expensive than warship construction , but they have greater flexibility since the number of aircraft ordered in any one year can be varied without throwing the Air Department 's costings off balance . |
| 17 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 18 | But Philip Pearson of the independent Low Pay Unit said : ‘ It 's because we have lower pay rates AND less productivity . |
| 19 | I have concentrated on the higher forms of life , not only because they are easy to observe but also to some extent because they have greater meaning for our own species . |
| 20 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 21 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 22 | TrueType fonts can also be faster as they have better access to the computer 's memory . |