Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These grand buildings , both seminary and church , set in one of the most important squares in the city , could not have been a clearer statement from the victors of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 2 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 3 | She glared at him , wondering whether the indigestible steak , swiftly followed by an early night , might not have been a better option after all . |
| 4 | There can hardly ever have been a tougher time to persuade banks to part with their money . |
| 5 | There could hardly have been a greater contrast than that between Kennedy and his successor . |
| 6 | As they stood together there could hardly have been a greater contrast . |
| 7 | There could hardly have been a clearer contrast between the raw truth and the glossy image . |
| 8 | As an example to the world that the young were powerful , that money was not the be-all and end-all , Apple could hardly have been a bigger failure . |
| 9 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 10 | We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter . |
| 11 | It could n't have been a worse morning for the Queen of England to visit us . |
| 12 | For instance , if the working class parties of pre-fascist Germany had really represented the class itself , the latter would have been more easily aroused than it in fact was , and the rise of fascism would at least have been a greater struggle . |
| 13 | There is a suggestion that farmers were inclined to discriminate in favour of married labourers , since they would otherwise have been a greater burden on the parish rate of which the farmers were the main payers . |