Example sentences of "and had [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in particular , the wealthy merchants were independent and organised members of society and had greater freedom than in many countries . |
2 | Mortensen also noted that A. ingolfiana was bigger than A. norvegica and had coarser arms . |
3 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
4 | Most of us , children of tradesmen , miners and semi-skilled factory workers , were better off than that and had higher hopes , though there was a good scattering of nits and lice and dirty feet around the classroom when the nurse came to do her inspection . |
5 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
6 | They were particularly important for the Magnox reactors , which used larger quantities of fuel and had bulkier structures to dismantle . |
7 | As a result , even during the peak years of labour mobility in the early 1970s , the outflows from the cities were dominated in both net and gross terms by people who were home-owners and had higher-paid jobs ( Kennett , 1983 ) . |