Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 2 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
| 3 | We 're now attempting to install , or produce those systems so that we have better information . |
| 4 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 5 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 6 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 7 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 8 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 9 | Some of these ideas are , that girls are more , social , and ‘ suggestible ’ than boys ; that they have lower achievement motivation and self-esteem ; that they are better at rote learning and repetition , and worse at higher-level cognitive tasks , involving responses inhibition and analysis ; that they are more ‘ auditory ’ and less ‘ visual ’ ; and that they are more affected by heredity and less by environment . |
| 10 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |