Example sentences of "they have a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
2 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
3 | And if they 'd a bigger place than that there little rectory , there would n't be a stick of furniture neither ! ’ |
4 | Not only do they have a greater opportunity to commit their favoured types of crimes , but they have the capacity to influence which of their behaviours will be regarded as corporate crimes in the first place . |
5 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
6 | And in this new structure , where the prime minister 's secretary popped out of holes and asked them what they thought , they had a better chance than any previous dean and chapter . |
7 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
8 | They had a better line in diplomacy than old Chamberlain himself and certainly did more good in the world . |
9 | and erm and I asked Margaret , they had a better view where she was |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The men on one floor would complain , for instance , that they had a thicker piece of barley to turn than the men on the floor above them : ‘ The top floor is not spreed [ spread ] as thick as this 'un ’ , and so on . |
12 | But when they had a closer look they saw that it was frozen solid . |
13 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
14 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
15 | There were more Crips and they had a larger share of the market in illegal drugs . |
16 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
17 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
18 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
19 | They had a stronger army than the Mexicans . |
20 | However , this is n't likely to occur within the National Parks and although , as Table 8.2 shows , they have a higher percentage of woodland than the rest of the uplands , voluntary agreements to limit any further afforestation will reduce their relative share . |
21 | So they have a higher income . |
22 | ( You should consider which way the demand and/or supply curves of money shift. ) ( a ) Banks find that they have a higher liquidity ratio than they need . |
23 | To reflect their extraordinary skill they have a higher weapon skill than most troops . |
24 | On T1 weighted images tumours have a low signal intensity , appearing dark ; on T2 weighted images they have a higher signal and look bright . |
25 | Do they issue them , part of the reason that of them having higher wages is that part industrials are bias that they , they have a higher wages and they think they will have a stronger growth in the industrial sector |
26 | Because customers choose to come to them when they visit branches , they have a higher hit-rate . |
27 | ‘ 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | This does not mean that they have a lower percentage fat content but that the fat present is partly mixed with the liquid that is retained in the cheese . |
30 | They have a lower level of seats , like the new East Stand , but instead of an upper level of seats they have executive boxes for the assorted reptilia who frequent such places . |