Example sentences of "[noun sg] have more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 2 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 3 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 4 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 5 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 6 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 7 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 8 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 9 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
| 10 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |