Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material .
2 it may have been referred to a higher court .
3 Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team …
4 Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team …
5 They may have been written with a wider audience in mind and are therefore easier to read than , for example , some of the accounting standards .
6 If the BRAC workers had collaborated more closely with the village practitioners , then the lobon-gur solution would probably have been placed on a better footing in the Bangladeshi villages .
7 Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction .
8 When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before .
9 We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff .
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