Example sentences of "[pron] had [art] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though less visible , it was export competition in goods and services which had a more fundamental effect on UK towns and cities . |
| 2 | In the castle , while baby Alan grew out of his six-week colic , there was an added sharpness to Marion Aluinn 's tongue , for she realised she had a more serious rival than any lass ; Lachlan 's rediscovered love of fighting . |
| 3 | She had a more bohemian background than any other Tiller pupil . |
| 4 | He had figured from her stories that she had a more passionate temperament and had hoped she 'd shout and scream at his wife . |
| 5 | Talk of the Rector and his unruly family , of her wild Harry 's doings at Oxford , of the poor hunting season it had been , all flowed between her and Aunt Emily and when she rose to go , and Alexandra held out her hand in farewell , Mrs Burrows stalked past her to the door as if she had no more real existence than an armchair . |
| 6 | At the same time there was some evidence that those who had a more general interest in politics , as distinct from those who found the campaign interesting ( a distinction we have already found significant in other contexts ) , were likely to record lower levels of total approval . |
| 7 | When an unpleasant sharp sound was used as the ‘ punishment ’ , the second group , who had the more difficult discrimination to make , learned much less efficiently and became anxious and disorganized . |
| 8 | WILLIAMS : I am sorry I have incurred your displeasure and the more as I have been told by Lady Jones that you had a more honourable view than at first was apprehended . |
| 9 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 10 | So there was no place in therapeutics for lysozyme , but it had a more fundamental value : it showed that substances did exist which were lethal to some microbes and harmless to human tissues . |
| 11 | Certainly it had a more significant effect on English politics than any purely political event in my lifetime . |
| 12 | Minutes later , Jack and Ho heard Ray Shepherd 's voice again , but this time it had a more hectoring tone and they knew he was addressing the meeting . |
| 13 | The tail of iguanodon was artificially curved , and this explains why it had a more upright stance than , say , the tiny Leosothosaurus . |
| 14 | as if he had no more unexplained attributes than anyone else . |
| 15 | He had thrown his pistols away since he had no more soft lead balls to use in them . |
| 16 | In response to these attacks , Archbishop Romero refused to attend the inauguration of the new president , General Romero , claiming he had a more important engagement with the people , an adroit reference to the huge fraud and violence which had accompanied the elections . |
| 17 | Andrew Buccleuth certainly had his fair share of brokers and analysts doing exactly that , but he had a more relaxed view of the duties of a salesman — and especially of one who enabled him to win substantial bets on the golf courses of southern England . |