Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] greater [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What emerged was that a well-diversified portfolio ( or in this case a well diversified fund ) should have eliminated the greater part of non-market risk .
2 This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor .
3 However , it could have hidden a greater reduction in flow in the deeper layers of the bowel wall , which may be the main site of vascular compromise .
4 The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward .
5 Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) .
6 The Big Bang may have encouraged a greater familiarity among companies with search firms , simply because it was the first occasion when they had called on their services , often reluctantly and as a last resort .
7 This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 .
8 It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics .
9 Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history .
10 This meant further discontent on the part of the workers and peasants , which would have meant a greater use of coercion by the state .
11 Presenting the seventh development plan ( 1991-97 ) to the National Assembly on Nov. 19 , Masire said that he expected a slowdown in revenue in the coming period and that the private sector would have to play a greater role in diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on mineral exports .
12 The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare .
13 To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed .
14 Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities .
15 Whichever of the two main parties forms the government of the early nineteen nineties , it will have to create a greater consensus in health and social care as well as other areas of our national life .
16 She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children .
17 Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted .
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