Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will also have a better recall of what has been said . |
| 2 | Subordinates may have a better knowledge of ‘ local ’ conditions affecting their area of work . |
| 3 | THE MUDDLES all come from thinking you could have a better idea of God or a worse one or any idea of God at all . |
| 4 | You will also understand yourself more , you will have a better idea of what motivates you . |
| 5 | By that time , we shall have a better idea of what this country wants its accountants to do . |
| 6 | This way you will have a better idea of whether the job will suit you , you avoid wasting your and the interviewer 's time , and you sidestep one possibility of creating a negative impression . |
| 7 | Dr Tony Martin , a whale biologist at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Cambridge , said : ‘ It is marvellous that it 's worked and hopefully people both here and internationally will now have a better idea of how to solve a similar problem . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 9 | Whenever we work with data values that have been generated by a growth process , we will have a better chance of revealing regularities in their behaviour if we convert them first to logs . |
| 10 | An experiment would have a better chance of persuading people that the publication of opinion polls affected individual views . |
| 11 | You will then have a better chance of getting through to the interview stage ; |
| 12 | They are practices which ensure that those who have the advantage of a network of friends and relations in secure employment will have a better chance of obtaining jobs than those who have a network of friends and relations who have suffered long-term unemployment . |
| 13 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 14 | If I was The John Dyson , do n't you think I 'd have a better chance of getting theatre seats ? |
| 15 | A prairie dog that knows what it 's up against may have a better chance of getting away safely . |
| 16 | It might have a better chance of survival at home with me . |
| 17 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 18 | Furthermore , committees would have a better chance of identifying inefficient budget-output proposals . |
| 19 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 20 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 21 | But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box . |
| 22 | and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though |
| 23 | I think you could play so many tunes on it that not only would we be producing much more efficiently and economically , but people could have a better quality of life too . |
| 24 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |
| 25 | Nicklaus may have a better record of second and third places , but winning is what matters ! |
| 26 | The locals , in theory , should have a better time of it , the grapevine telling them where the ice is best . |
| 27 | ‘ The known brands must have a certain proportion of meat in them , but I do n't know what sort . |
| 28 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 29 | Moreover , these potential thoughts do not just lie there like strands of spaghetti on a plate : each must have a certain kind of relation to the others . |
| 30 | Does the activity have a certain measure of substance , as measured by quarterly or annual value of turnover ? |