Example sentences of "would have [been] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that Pak would have been more amenable to the Russians than Kim but Kim was the tougher of the two and had the opportunities , which he fully exploited . |
| 2 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 3 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 4 | I have also learnt that there are other makes of computer — even among those supplied by Dixons — that would have been more suitable at little or no extra cost . |
| 5 | This kind of accommodation would have been more suitable for the servants than for the owner and his family . |
| 6 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 7 | I feel Wallace would have been more effective in this match … to give that option . |
| 8 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 9 | Mahoney would have been more confident of victory a month ago before injuries to Kiwi flanker Richard Arnold , former British Lions second row Steve Bainbridge and prop Paul Thompson . |
| 10 | Though she would have been more comfortable beside him , with her back against the tree , she did n't want to risk touching him . |
| 11 | He argues further that the parish vestry and its officers , the churchwardens , overseers and constables , could cut across divides of wealth and were a means by which the gentry and rural middle class secured positions which would have been more precarious without the respect they received by fulfilling certain customary expectations of relief . |
| 12 | It would have been more worthy of those now dancing on Mr Punch 's grave to acknowledge the part they played in his illness . |
| 13 | He registered that George Wood 's information had been correct , paid his bill and — to the relief of the landlord — went on his way over the pass and not back to Keswick , which would have been more likely for a government man . |
| 14 | Had a more diverse stock existed it would have been more likely for a less familiar tale to have been selected . |
| 15 | This would have been more difficult with the single pans of watercolour . |