Example sentences of "have [been] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given a pitch more worn than an umpire 's eardrum , ’ he wrote ( if that is the word ) , ‘ 99 was not a straightforward target , and when the temperature was threatening to melt the mercury in the thermometer , Graham Gooch could scarcely have been more grateful for having buried the hatchet with Hampshire 's intrepid aviator . ’ |
| 2 | I could n't have been more grateful to our Zanskari friends that day for guiding us safely out of a rock and ice-water trap . |
| 3 | ‘ Would it not have been more usual for your daughter to have stayed with her mother ? ’ |
| 4 | So here also circumstances may have been more susceptible to external pressure . |
| 5 | Nothing could have been more galling to the Protestants . |
| 6 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 7 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 8 | It is likely that Pak would have been more amenable to the Russians than Kim but Kim was the tougher of the two and had the opportunities , which he fully exploited . |
| 9 | Soviet leaders may have been more amenable to a plan for negotiations on Afghanistan developed in France , which did not incorporate the neutralisation element of the EEC scheme . |
| 10 | In some respects , it serves an as abbreviated index without the page and volume references and might have been more helpful as a kind of contents list . |
| 11 | ‘ We should have been more alert to her condition before placing any foster child there . |
| 12 | In the Foreign Office case it was felt that the responsible ministers should have been more alert to the possibility of aggression by Argentina . |
| 13 | I have also learnt that there are other makes of computer — even among those supplied by Dixons — that would have been more suitable at little or no extra cost . |
| 14 | This kind of accommodation would have been more suitable for the servants than for the owner and his family . |
| 15 | This short book might have been more accessible to the lay reader and perhaps generally clearer had it included some extra detail or more specific examples . |
| 16 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 17 | Mahoney would have been more confident of victory a month ago before injuries to Kiwi flanker Richard Arnold , former British Lions second row Steve Bainbridge and prop Paul Thompson . |
| 18 | Would it have been more honourable for Prothero to let Pound go on submitting , when there was no hope of his being accepted ? |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 20 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 21 | I feel Wallace would have been more effective in this match … to give that option . |
| 22 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 23 | It would perhaps have been more accurate in the discussion to use terms such as load and extension . |
| 24 | Parrott , 6–2 up overnight against Irish professional champion Joe Swail , could not have been more impressive in completing a 9–3 victory . |
| 25 | It was noted that a number of forms and procedures had been devised by the Clerical Assistant and the OIC , and it was considered possible that the analysis might have been more revealing in other establishments where the approach to administrative work was not so methodical . |
| 26 | While I accept that this is still an open question in the minds of many local farmers , I thought the article should have been more explicit about the scientific consensus on this point . |
| 27 | ‘ Why in the world could n't she have been more honest with me ? ’ |
| 28 | As it turned out it had landed in a position that could n't have been more perfect for what was to happen next . |
| 29 | Nothing could have been more perfect for someone who had to work , but desperately wanted to enjoy the sunshine and activities of summer . |
| 30 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |