Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have been [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He declared that the ANC and its allies wanted " peace and democracy " and that " if the government … responds in the same spirit , our action will have been the best thing that could have happened to the negotiations process " . |
| 3 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
| 4 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 5 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Inevitably the industry came under some pressure from the Government to control this burgeoning demand from domestic consumers , without which the capacity crisis would have been a good deal less serious . |
| 8 | Town 's first Easter delight came on saturday against Luton at the County Ground … they were given a tough time in this one … a draw would have been a good result … a fair one too … but thanks to Paul Bodin the full-back with a golden boot they went and snatched a win … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had n't shaved recently , and a little soap might have been a good idea . |
| 11 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe working on water would have been a better description , ’ says Wimpey marketing manager Phil Cusack . |
| 13 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mason fears death might have been the better part , and asks Gray to contribute to the benefit on his behalf . |