Example sentences of "[verb] have a better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel has decided that the next generation of PC processors needs to have a better name than the 586 . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 3 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 4 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 5 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 6 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 7 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 8 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 9 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 10 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 11 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 12 | In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation . |
| 13 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 14 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 15 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 16 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 17 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 18 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 19 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 20 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 21 | The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season . |
| 22 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 23 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 24 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 25 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 26 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 27 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 28 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 29 | No , I 've had a better idea ! |
| 30 | and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though |