Example sentences of "[noun] have be a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus .
2 If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order .
3 Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public .
4 Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ?
5 Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes .
6 Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet .
7 It has proved impossible to determine whether the French LFA farmer is better off financially having loans compared with his UK counterpart receiving a capital grant ; the indications are that the UK system has been a greater incentive , especially towards land improvements .
8 But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice .
9 Of particular note has been a further reduction in the amount of total wastes produced and the maintaining of energy efficiency across the Group .
10 If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman .
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