Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 33 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 34 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 35 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 36 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 37 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 38 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 39 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 40 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 41 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 42 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 43 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
| 44 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 45 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 46 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 47 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 48 | 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 " . |
| 49 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 50 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |
| 51 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 52 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 53 | Carol and Mark were ever loyal and proud of their mother , while Denis had a role which would have dismayed a weaker man . |
| 54 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script |
| 55 | Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord . |
| 56 | It would have needed a later generation of social workers , free from the prejudices of war , to detect the frustration behind the mask of ingratitude and disloyalty . |
| 57 | And this must in part have reflected a greater diversity among its patrons . |
| 58 | Never though can it have housed a greater galaxy of scientific and industrial leaders than on that Thursday last month . |
| 59 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 60 | So there were two key consequences ; one was that universities came to see that planning of such change might have produced a better result : the other that vengeful dons denied Mrs Thatcher her honorary degree from Oxford . |