Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue .
2 The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue .
3 You see , we ca n't get away from the fact that if Kemp was in London , he could easily have caught an earlier train .
4 This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause .
5 Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute .
6 With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start .
7 When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start .
8 John could hardly have found a better influence .
9 Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions .
10 Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " .
11 In the event , there was little snow and I could probably have chosen a lighter fabric-and-leather boot with a Goretex or Sympatex lining .
12 Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord .
13 That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty .
14 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 .
15 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script
16 She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it .
17 Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should .
18 It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock .
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