Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have a better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 2 | The only difference between now and the World Cup is that I have a better suntan . |
| 3 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 4 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 5 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 6 | Now that we have a better understanding of the flight envelope it is time to explored Take the kite straight up , pull to make a 180-degree turn and you 've turned the kite nose-down into vertical dive . |
| 7 | In some cases a liaison arrangement is made with an individual who will , in addition to the responsibilities given in ( 1 ) above , help with the training of Archive staff so that they have a better appreciation of the needs of particular users of the data . |
| 8 | Students who work with Reading Skills for the Social Sciences , are most likely to notice that they read with greater confidence and that they have a better command of academic/specialised vocabulary as a result of using the book . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 11 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | When they have to go in , he 's there , it means it 's all less terrifying , less alien , and they have a better chance . |
| 15 | The enemy has a chance to out-fly you , and if he has a better machine he will probably kill you . |
| 16 | ‘ I do — unless you have a better idea ? ’ |
| 17 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but she has a better memory than me , even . |
| 19 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 20 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |