Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus . |
| 2 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 3 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 4 | Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes . |
| 5 | The original 1930s plant was replaced by an explosion-proof variant some five years ago : Winnington has been a quieter , if less spectacular , place since then . |
| 6 | Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet . |
| 7 | It has proved impossible to determine whether the French LFA farmer is better off financially having loans compared with his UK counterpart receiving a capital grant ; the indications are that the UK system has been a greater incentive , especially towards land improvements . |
| 8 | Rather sadly , Mr Scargill 's reward for his caring contribution has been a further 837 pit closures and lifelong castigation by a large section of the national media . |
| 9 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 10 | Of particular note has been a further reduction in the amount of total wastes produced and the maintaining of energy efficiency across the Group . |
| 11 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 12 | She looked across at her companion , whose gesture at dressing for dinner had been a newer , cleaner white sweater , and slightly less disreputable denims . |