Example sentences of "have [be] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent single , Love You All My Lifetime , should have been a bigger hit and shows that Chaka can still sound as if she 's bursting with all the joys of spring . |
| 2 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 3 | As an example to the world that the young were powerful , that money was not the be-all and end-all , Apple could hardly have been a bigger failure . |
| 4 | One of the features of the years 765–85 may have been a closer involvement on Offa 's part with the kingdom of the East Angles . |
| 5 | It could not have been a bleaker one . |
| 6 | There could hardly have been a clearer contrast between the raw truth and the glossy image . |
| 7 | These grand buildings , both seminary and church , set in one of the most important squares in the city , could not have been a clearer statement from the victors of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 8 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 9 | That is because , even though Maine might have been a better guide than Morgan concerning the evolution of kinship , Morgan was a much better guide than Maine concerning the evolution of property . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There must have been a better breeze there . |
| 12 | ‘ Cupboard ’ would have been a better description . |
| 13 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 14 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 17 | Miss Beard , for whom Ruth thought ‘ drab ’ would have been a better description , inclined her head . |
| 18 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 19 | It might have been a better picture . |
| 20 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 21 | There should have been a better backcloth , something that smacked more of the dramatic and less of the bare ordinariness of these humble homes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 24 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 25 | We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter . |
| 26 | She glared at him , wondering whether the indigestible steak , swiftly followed by an early night , might not have been a better option after all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 29 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 30 | But a rugged tight-head like Peter Clohessy might have been a better choice . |