Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] have a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinosaurs also had a larger digestive tract that seemed to have co-evolved with the changes in Earth 's flora and fauna . |
| 2 | Control wanted a complete run-down , and knowing the way Hurley operated , I think the DIA probably had a better handle on it from my back-channel stuff than DEA headquarters did through its own official channels . ’ |
| 3 | However , the Canadian multicentre post-term pregnancy trial group found that women allowed to go into labour spontaneously had a higher rate of caesarean section ( 24.5% ) than those who had labour induced ( 21.2% ) because of an increased incidence of fetal distress in the first stage . |
| 4 | Buxtehude planners are confident that these results are a consequence of the introduction of environmental traffic management , for drivers now have a wider angle of visibility , a shorter time to react and a reduced braking distance . |
| 5 | Knowing Hurley , Coleman was pretty sure that the DIA now had a better grasp of what was going on at DEA Nicosia than the DEA itself . |
| 6 | As a result , people in the South generally have a lower life expectancy than that of their northern neighbours , one fifth suffer from malnutrition and half have no opportunity to become literate . |
| 7 | He suggested that the one who asks for containment usually has a simpler personality than the container who has a tendency to dissociate . |
| 8 | I suspect that cultural matters here have a higher significance in the lives of ordinary people than is the case in the West . |
| 9 | Ministry in the home never has a lower priority than that outside the home . |
| 10 | The models too have a better attitude . |
| 11 | Antislavery thus had a further institutional base but it was thereby also vulnerable as regards united action to the outbreak of warfare amongst religious parties . |
| 12 | Applicants clearly have a better chance of obtaining accommodation quickly if willing to accept a dwelling in one of the main settlements , and this in turn may be detrimental and cause long journeys to work . |
| 13 | But the idea of citizenship also had a wider impact , particularly in Eastern Europe , where the assertion of civil and political rights against the political dictatorships had a central place in the doctrines of the opposition movements . |
| 14 | Morton 's Adhesives and Specialty Polymers group probably has a greater diversity of products and markets — both in terms of end uses and of geography — than any other part of the company . |
| 15 | The company loyalty bargain which exchanges labour cooperation for job security also has a wider significance if we think about the amazingly low national unemployment figures recorded by the Ministry of Labour . |
| 16 | The intuition is as follows : for given w , increased polarization ( fall in µ ) reduces membership ( MD curve shifts left ) , because some workers now have a lower ta ; and therefore abstain from membership . |
| 17 | Feldspar grains therefore have a higher diagenetic potential than quartz grains , particularly to chemical change ; mechanically , they are almost as rigid as quartz grains when fresh . |
| 18 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 19 | Whole schools do not happen because the head alone has a greater view of the school , they occur because everyone 's view of the school is extended and embraced ( Southworth 1988:327 ) . |
| 20 | This development also had a wider dimension . |
| 21 | This development also had a wider dimension . |
| 22 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |
| 23 | ‘ Businesses now have a lower pound — that means a golden opportunity to invest and export into new markets . |
| 24 | Free movement of capital means that investors now have a wider choice of what to buy . |
| 25 | Please tell people that no woman ever had a finer , more generous son . |
| 26 | No man at his age ever had a straighter back , that we were sure of , straight and strong , it was as the ground ash stick he always carried . |
| 27 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 28 | The corpses now had a greater value . |
| 29 | Our Hong Kong painting sales now have a higher proportion of contemporary paintings influenced by Western techniques and subjects than paintings in the traditional Chinese style and media ( watercolour and ink paintings in scroll and album formats depicting landscapes , flowers , or Buddhist and figure themes ) . |
| 30 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |