Example sentences of "have be a more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 2 | There has been a more favourable reaction from the fans , with West Ham , Manchester City , Sunderland , Derby , Millwall , Darlington and Hereford among those to have pledged supporter solidarity . |
| 3 | Since the 1970s the reduction in dependence on bank loans has been a more general feature , especially among manufacturing firms who are able to finance more of their investment out of retained profits or accumulated reserves . |
| 4 | But religious righteousness has been a more potent force than economic despair . |
| 5 | Even though child abuse — mainly the sexual variety — has been a more open subject in the past few years , I have not seen many articles of this nature in professional magazines . |
| 6 | So that in that sense the fundamental orientation is likely to change even less erm than one , than might have been the case if there 'd been a more radical change . |
| 7 | There may have been a more sinister side to this friendly relationship with the justices of the Jews . |
| 8 | He has been described as ‘ eccentric ’ but esoteric might have been a more suitable word . |
| 9 | It would have been a more complete list had Wirral and St Helens authorities not instructed their schools to ignore our request for information although some Wirral schools did reply . |
| 10 | could not have been a more perfect match . |
| 11 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 12 | If I heard him correctly , and I thought so , judging by the figures that he was quoting it must have been a more recent Price Waterhouse survey , not the original . |
| 13 | And , when , finally , she did emerge from her curtain cubicle to face the other girls , they took it very well , for they could afford to be charitable , and they were secretly glad that Clara 's style was cramped , for without some handicap she would have been a more serious threat . |
| 14 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 15 | The term context , of course , labels the latter ( although context-description might have been a more appropriate term , as Bar-Hillel ( 1970 : 80 ) suggests ) . |
| 16 | Surely there could not have been a more destructive fire than Calvary ; but more was to come . |
| 17 | But as Henry remarked to Elinor as the cortège moved away from Darby 's , the undertaker in the village , a charabanc might have been a more decent way of moving the extraordinarily large number of people who turned out for what Sprott referred to as ‘ the big goodbye ’ for Donald Templeton MD . |
| 18 | The British were tempted to behave as if the disparity in power between the United States and themselves was only of the order of two to one when seven to one would have been a more realistic figure . |
| 19 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 20 | Shifting sands might have been a more apt title ! |
| 21 | ‘ I may have been a more enthusiastic scholar if they had been ! ’ |
| 22 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |
| 23 | For despite its re-working , this is still essentially a novel , and radio would have been a more comfortable medium for it . |
| 24 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 25 | If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention . |
| 26 | This reflects the ageing of cohorts where smoking had been a more prevalent lifestyle habit . |