Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a much [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 2 | Hawaii has exhibited a much faster rate of construction , but its volcanism will be short-lived as it will be carried away from its magma source by plate motion . |
| 3 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 4 | For a long time , however , Northern Ireland has had a much higher unemployment rate than the UK as a whole and has represented the extreme of regional disparity . |
| 5 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 6 | No doubt in some cases this was true , but as research has indicated a much denser pattern of settlement in earlier periods , and as continuity seems to be the norm , the role of churches has required re-examination . |
| 7 | Through time wine has taken a much larger share of the domestic market . |
| 8 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 9 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 10 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 11 | In previous decades a similar swing would have produced a much higher majority . |
| 12 | With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary . |
| 13 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |
| 14 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 15 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |
| 16 | A predicted upturn in the market would have put a much higher valuation on the painting . |
| 17 | Certainly , Supreme Court judges are likely to have had a much wider variety of governmental and legal experience than their counterparts in Britain where the rather narrow process of socialization into the law and recruitment process seems to ensure less variation . |
| 18 | Britain would be in an open economic zone and subject to even more direct competition from economies which had made a much stronger commitment to skills , research , science and transport . |
| 19 | Er er we could say that we 've got a much bigger range of aims and does that mean that we are more likely to have |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got a much bigger nose than I expected , Michael , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I used to take bass for granted , because I did n't really understand it , but having been around Sara I 've got a much deeper appreciation for the way she fits into the rhythm section and comes up with lines that move around underneath the melody . |
| 22 | THE STONE Roses may be thinner but these days you 've got a much fatter chance of hearing a Mock Turtles record on the radio . |
| 23 | Now you 've got a much easier shot have n't you ? |
| 24 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 25 | Imhotep had a chapel at the temple of Isis at Philae and was also linked with the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu , which had replaced a much earlier temple at the site , possibly dating back to the Old Kingdom . |
| 26 | I thought it a bit extreme to take the unit off as I 've found a much simpler way of stopping this problem of the springs sounding off in the back . |
| 27 | But this year , she thought with satisfaction , she was well-prepared ; and Rodney had found a much larger place than usual and invited all and sundry to join them . |
| 28 | Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed . |
| 29 | After the SUPPLYKITS flotation , the analysts , investors , and competitors had taken a much closer look at the company . |
| 30 | Even further back , in Charles II 's reign , the Compton ecclesiastical census of 1676 had suggested that Dissenters then formed only 4 per cent of the nation at large , though in some communities Dissent had taken a much stronger hold . |