Example sentences of "to have a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest . |
| 2 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 3 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 4 | Er men tend to have a lower pitch on the whole , erm th they 're louder and the 's due to their physiological differences , erm Jacqueline once said that , Men try to talk bigger than they are whereas women talk as though they 're smaller . |
| 5 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 6 | The Working Party felt it was very necessary to have a closer contact with Society members than was possible at present and that this could be best achieved by being in direct communication with them . |
| 7 | The commotion caused a young couple passing by to go into the gallery to have a closer look at the paintings . |
| 8 | He and his assistants unpacked the shopping trolley to have a closer look at what liver enzymes can do , how bleach works , how to make coke or why cabbage juice is a good indicator . |
| 9 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 10 | Customs then took three weeks to have a closer look at the booty ( oh yeah ) . |
| 11 | Eventually a vehicle stopped , and its occupant , an American diplomat , got out to have a closer look at this strange bundle of fur . |
| 12 | Friends took me up to have a closer look at it , and I understand the pilot , who was an Australian , managed to bale out and came down safely somewhere near Balder Head . |
| 13 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 14 | Erm so that 's fine , to have a harsher lighting on his face is fine cos it does tend to show up the er the wrinkles in his forehead , under his eyes and his whiskers which is fine because when erm my old portraits of this nature , that 's the sort of thing you 're trying to emphasize . |
| 15 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 16 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 17 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 18 | Additional policies may be required to complement fiscal policy if the government is to have a better chance of achieving its various objectives . |
| 19 | You do not need a complete conventional circuit with a long downwind leg , although this will obviously give you more time in which to have a better look at the field . |
| 20 | You 're not that blonde one I 've noticed driving around and nearly swerved to have a better look at the other day are you ? |
| 21 | WACC-AR should make an inventory and directory that will enable communicators in Africa to have a better knowledge of the existing communication and human rights organisations , institutions and resources in Africa ; |
| 22 | What we need now , to have a better grasp of these connections , is a better grasp of the two kinds of statements . |
| 23 | Expert systems can help the human expert to have a better understanding of his cognitive knowledge . |
| 24 | I intend us to have a better record on inflation in the 1990s than in either the 1970s or the 1980s . |
| 25 | HP claims to have a better handle on the situation , providing a one-step upgrade and 18 months to plan and implement the migration . |
| 26 | You sell your time for money to have a better time in the unsold hours . |
| 27 | If they know the performance is to be recorded , their practice of a roleplay situation has , a real purpose and their performance is likely to have a sharper edge to it . |
| 28 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 29 | This is the Olympic class and tends to have a higher standard with a limited following . |
| 30 | Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed . |