Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been less " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 2 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 3 | It was that simple , and at a more leisurely pace would have been less of a caper and more a proper holiday . |
| 4 | If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand , his holiday would have been spoilt . |
| 5 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |