Example sentences of "have been [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 2 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 3 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 4 | That is because , even though Maine might have been a better guide than Morgan concerning the evolution of kinship , Morgan was a much better guide than Maine concerning the evolution of property . |
| 5 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 6 | There must have been a better breeze there . |
| 7 | ‘ Cupboard ’ would have been a better description . |
| 8 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 9 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 10 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |
| 11 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 12 | Miss Beard , for whom Ruth thought ‘ drab ’ would have been a better description , inclined her head . |
| 13 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 14 | It might have been a better picture . |
| 15 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 16 | There should have been a better backcloth , something that smacked more of the dramatic and less of the bare ordinariness of these humble homes . |
| 17 | A month ago , the smart press echoed with I-told-you-so reminders that Mr Hurd , the classiest act in the government , would have been a better prime minister than Mr Major . |
| 18 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 19 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 20 | We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter . |
| 21 | She glared at him , wondering whether the indigestible steak , swiftly followed by an early night , might not have been a better option after all . |
| 22 | Folly did n't say anything , but she could n't help thinking that the Post Office Tower would have been a better vantage-point , as well as being one of the ‘ sights ’ of London in its own right . |
| 23 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 24 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 25 | But a rugged tight-head like Peter Clohessy might have been a better choice . |
| 26 | And er yes i also , I would think , it 's a little unfortunate this chap happened to have his hand up on that er post there , yo you know , it 's a little bit er ungainly , it 's not sort of a very elegant sort of po I 'm not su suggesting he should pose for you , but I think , maybe had you waited until perhaps he moved his hand out of the way , it might have been a better erm composition . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe working on water would have been a better description , ’ says Wimpey marketing manager Phil Cusack . |
| 28 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 29 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
| 30 | Head of the Department of the Environment 's science unit , Dick Derwent , who was in Teesside to see the progress , dismissed suggestions that Redcar 's Technical College might have been a better site . |