Example sentences of "have had a better [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 2 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 3 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 4 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 5 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 6 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 7 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 8 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 9 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 10 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 11 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 12 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |