Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing gives so bad an impression to the other members of the committee and to the officers present than a member who talks without having read his agenda papers , or who has missed an earlier meeting where the matter was fully discussed or who talks for the sake of talking on every subject . |
| 2 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 3 | Who has played the better rugby ? |
| 4 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 5 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 6 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 7 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 8 | The Executive Director of UNEP , Mostafa Tolba , who had advocated a shorter timetable , said that " the package [ was ] not enough " , adding that the depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs was " an unfair action to future generations " and that " we have done the damage ; we have to undo it " . |
| 9 | When Churchill , who had supported the earlier Council of Europe proposal , returned as premier in October 1951 , many hoped that that participation would now be forthcoming . |
| 10 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 11 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 12 | Marked eels from Europe never reach the Sargasso sea , only their counterparts who had taken a shorter journey to the American mainland . |
| 13 | Some run efficient remedial courses , which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course . |
| 14 | There are a considerable number of Labour Party members sitting in this Council Chamber who have given a greater financial contribution than they ever expected to make because was Treasurer . |
| 15 | For it is they who have borne the greater part of the burden of the economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( SAP ) started by the Babangida military government in 1986 . |
| 16 | Like many other executives who have reached the higher echelons , you may well find that the career evolution methods you used earlier can no longer produce the results you seek today . |
| 17 | Those who have to take a further qualification in English should make an early application to the relevant authority . |
| 18 | The programme includes a prospective long term evaluation of family responses to early diagnosis and a comparison of their experiences and perceptions with those families who have undergone the later traditional clinical diagnosis . |
| 19 | For this purpose a test may be used to discriminate those pupils who have attained a higher level from those at a lower level . |
| 20 | It is impossible to present right-brain concepts as reasonable or understandable to people who have suppressed the greater part of their right-brain abilities and function virtually entirely in the left-brain approach . |
| 21 | I 'm not going to do a match report either , I 'll leave that to someone who 's a bit more eloquent , and who 's got a better memory , I ca n't even seem to remember what happened 10 mins ago let alone 2 days . |
| 22 | If I could cite one example of that , the accountancy profession recruits seventy per cent of its intake from non-accountancy graduates , and in fact , a student taking accountancy , and getting a not particularly good degree , even a lower second class honours degree , can sometimes be regarded by employers as having demonstrated not particularly good aptitude for accountancy , and be discounted in favour of a candidate from another major subject , who 's got a better class of degree . |
| 23 | There is no such thing as right and wrong — only who 's got the better lawyer . |
| 24 | For the first time , ministers formally acknowledged the security aspirations of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , some of whom had urged a greater defence role for the nine-country Western European Union [ see pp. 37212 ; 37931 ; 38216 ] . |