Example sentences of "would have been a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 2 | ‘ Cupboard ’ would have been a better description . |
| 3 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 4 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |
| 5 | Miss Beard , for whom Ruth thought ‘ drab ’ would have been a better description , inclined her head . |
| 6 | A month ago , the smart press echoed with I-told-you-so reminders that Mr Hurd , the classiest act in the government , would have been a better prime minister than Mr Major . |
| 7 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 8 | Folly did n't say anything , but she could n't help thinking that the Post Office Tower would have been a better vantage-point , as well as being one of the ‘ sights ’ of London in its own right . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 10 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe working on water would have been a better description , ’ says Wimpey marketing manager Phil Cusack . |
| 12 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 13 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 14 | Baldwin then made no demur against the Chancellor 's recommendation ; there would have been a greater chance of his demurring had the decision gone the other way , not because of his views but because of his admiration and affection for Montagu Norman , the intellectually certain Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have been a greater one to have visited you in person . |
| 16 | Oh , was not this delightful , to hurt again the girl who had rejected him , the girl who when all was said and done would have been a greater prize than the vulgar woman he had married for her money ? |
| 17 | Perhaps Italy would have been a fairer example for Mr Major to have picked . |
| 18 | A draw would have been a fairer outcome . |
| 19 | He thought two two would have been a fairer reflection of the play . |
| 20 | A draw would have been a fairer result . |
| 21 | Oxford should have had a hatfull against Bristol Rovers … they were on top all the way through … three or four nil would have been a fairer reflection … |
| 22 | Very likely there would have been a further coolness or misunderstanding and they would have parted . |
| 23 | Their mother , who believed that Ali Reza would have been a stronger Shah and should succeed ( if not replace ) Muhammad Reza . |