Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman may personally have achieved a rather soft landing , but sadly that was not true for the economy of which he was in charge . |
| 2 | So the young maestro in intensive care may not have conducted a very effective Tristan or Beethoven Seventh ? |
| 3 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous . |
| 4 | She could not have packed a more unsuitable set of garments for tonight 's escapade , but then no such prospect had even crossed her mind when she was leaving London . |
| 5 | One of the only four known examples of the form by Newport 's major maker , even restoration to its feet would not have prevented a far higher price in the boom of the late 1980s . |
| 6 | Keld is a Norse word meaning ‘ a spring ’ and the first settlers here could not have chosen a more appropriate name for there is always the sound of water ; the little cluster of stone buildings occupies a headland thrust into the turbulent cataracts of the Swale , in infancy Yorkshire 's most exuberant river . |
| 7 | Paul Manville had to be given his due — he could not have chosen a more apt record to convey his message . |
| 8 | In retrospect , I know now that I could not have chosen a more co-operative species than the chub with which to begin a vocation in big-fish angling . |
| 9 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 10 | A number of the letters relate to diplomatic missions between Austrasia and Byzantium , but the collection can not have had a purely political purpose . |
| 11 | However , although the polenier event is associated with cooling of the ocean , it may not have had a very large impact on the carbon dioxide balance . |
| 12 | It could not have found a more appropriate , more common voice than the soulful . |
| 13 | From her family 's point of view she could scarcely have chosen a more unsuitable lover . |
| 14 | And Becker could hardly have landed a more dangerous floater with a first round match against compatriot Marc Goellner who , along with Karbacher , is part of the new wave of top German players . |
| 15 | He could hardly have chosen a more exciting match than Sunday 's in which to run the rule over Yorkshire , but Robinson admits he 's a bad watcher of cricket . |
| 16 | To celebrate the occasion , they could hardly have offered a more attractive programme — two of the top favourite operas of all time , plus a full-scale concert of the most popular music of Vienna . |
| 17 | In this respect , Kenneth Baker 's jocular early reference to Labour 's ‘ Gould mine ’ of political gaffes may conceivably have fallen a little short . |
| 18 | Quite intuitively , he told me : ‘ Had he stuck to what he originally put into the part , he would probably have had a totally different career over the next twenty years or so . |
| 19 | If you have any fixed-wing experience , you will by now have realised a very important difference between helicopters and aeroplanes . |
| 20 | One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration . |
| 21 | If he 'd been thrown in cold against Juventus 's £8 million man , McLaren might well have suffered a very different fate from the rave reviews that greeted his outstanding display . |
| 22 | Besides , they were cold and wet and the burrow , while it would n't have sounded a very comfortable proposition back at the quarry , was suddenly much better than the horrible night outside . |
| 23 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 24 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 25 | WIMBLEDON 'S Vinnie Jones could n't have chosen a less appropriate place than Old Trafford to expound on his vision of Premier League football as a glorified hangover cure . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not terribly easy to go away with that sort of thing ringing in your ears , but for all that I could n't have chosen a more marvellous or rewarding life . ’ |
| 27 | The history of the Federal Republic might then have followed a more erratic course . |
| 28 | This would however have involved a fairly cumbersome organisation , with regional committees and large numbers of volunteers trained to talk about money management to schoolchildren . |
| 29 | And our noble lords at the palace would certainly have done a more professional job . ’ |