Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 2 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 3 | ‘ Some goods can only be bought with FEC , so they have a higher value to the Chinese who are desperate to get hold of them . |
| 4 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 5 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 6 | I think if I had a bigger bust my guts would n't look so big . |
| 7 | Cos what I thought , if I had a bigger you can always turn , you can always turn them up for us sew them and all that . |
| 8 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 9 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 10 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 11 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 12 | And th it 's a it 's a it 's a strange situation but if you 've got a smaller estate you 'll get away with it , and if you 've a larger one you 've got to tell them about it . |
| 13 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 14 | If you have a larger area to plant than that shown in the plan , increase the quantities of plants used , or try some others , too . |
| 15 | If we had a larger sample , it would be easier to venture a firm opinion . ’ |
| 16 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 17 | And if they 'd a bigger place than that there little rectory , there would n't be a stick of furniture neither ! ’ |
| 18 | Clients are very well aware of levels within an organisation and , if they have a smaller headhunting firm working at one level in the organisation , they may well not use that firm when a very senior appointment arises . |
| 19 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 20 | The enemy has a chance to out-fly you , and if he has a better machine he will probably kill you . |
| 21 | ‘ I do — unless you have a better idea ? ’ |
| 22 | They it 's simple , it 's nice , it 's elegant and it 's not an item at all unless you have a further premise that the world itself is simple , nice and elegant and you have no reason to believe that at all , but since that applies across all sides , I think linguistics is in no worse shape . |
| 23 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 24 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
| 25 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 26 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 27 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 28 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 29 | It was difficult to calculate Hewlett-Packard Co 's margins , he said , because it has a wider-ranging business . |
| 30 | The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect . |