Example sentences of "have have [art] better " in BNC.

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1 The analysis of intergenerational redistribution ( whether , for example , the generation now retired has had a better or worse deal over their lifetime than those currently in the labour force ) poses still more severe problems .
2 ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’
3 Jimmy could have had a better serve .
4 Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening .
5 Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s .
6 ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard .
7 As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives .
8 This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff .
9 Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory .
10 The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season .
11 If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth .
12 As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader …
13 Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole .
14 I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching .
15 Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! "
16 Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ?
17 No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy .
18 In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation .
19 Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks .
20 He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall .
21 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
22 Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services .
23 Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match .
24 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
25 Diuretics seem to have had a better protective effect than β blockers .
26 So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ .
27 It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence .
28 At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered .
29 No , I 've had a better idea !
30 Modern scholars who have tried to imitate Josephus in his search for references to Jews in pre-Alexandrian Greek literature have had no better luck .
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