Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] a much [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary . |
| 2 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 3 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 4 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |
| 5 | In previous decades a similar swing would have produced a much higher majority . |
| 6 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |
| 7 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 8 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 9 | A predicted upturn in the market would have put a much higher valuation on the painting . |