Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 2 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 3 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results . |
| 5 | The immediate suspects of the murder were a local man and his son ; but both these men could not have had stronger alibis , for the father was in hospital after having an operation on his hip bone , while his son had three days previously been called into the Forces . |
| 6 | The failure was less hers than his own for not having taken better care . |
| 7 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry not to have made better use of Fontana here , ’ she answered . |
| 9 | The Royalist Roman Catholic French would probably have made better conquerors of Ireland , if Ireland had to be reconquered once more . |
| 10 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 11 | Such relative uniformity may also have given greater cohesion to the Angevin Empire , for its major towns from Rouen to La Rochelle and Bayonne shared the Etablissements . |
| 12 | Retrospectively , therefore , some Minors might well have become later candidates for Major status . |
| 13 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |
| 14 | Had he survived , the old chap would surely have found better ways to fritter this weekend . |
| 15 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 16 | Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax . |
| 17 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |