Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 2 | Like Gruber , his Vienna contemporary Kurt Schwertsik has rejected the sterner face of the serial and post-serial avant-garde in favour of a more accessible , tonal music . |
| 3 | McStay and Grant had got the better of Hamilton and McGinlay while Slater and Collins were more effective than Lennon and Wright on the flanks . |
| 4 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 5 | Baffled by some of the refereeing decisions but that 's a minor thing compared to the fact that Notts were two goals ahead with just about minutes played and then went completely off the boil , they had Pisa on the run , they failed to capitalize on it and Pisa have finished the stronger of the two sides towards the end of the first half . |
| 6 | Polybius had spent the greater part of his time explaining to Greeks and Romans why the Romans were bound to win . |
| 7 | And , to rub further salt into her wounds , Marissa had treated the younger girl with a cool , obvious contempt that had quickly begun to strip away Laura 's small store of self-confidence . |
| 8 | Now that Sinclair has perfected the newer type of membrane system used on the QL it would be interesting to speculate on which of the add-on companies is going to be the first to offer replacements for this ! |
| 9 | Of the two sales Christie 's had the stronger Old Master section , with two outstanding lots . |
| 10 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 11 | He had been linked with Manly but Leeds have made the better offer . |