Example sentences of "had a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 2 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 3 | ALBSU has had a wider brief to facilitate literacy and numeracy among the native and non- native speakers of English . |
| 4 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 5 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 6 | The club have never had a better side . |
| 7 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 8 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 9 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 10 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 11 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 12 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 13 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 15 | I 've never had a better incentive to hurry home . |
| 16 | The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season . |
| 17 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never had a better client , ’ she said then . |
| 19 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 20 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 21 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 22 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 23 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 24 | No , I 've had a better idea ! |
| 25 | Diuretics seem to have had a better protective effect than β blockers . |
| 26 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 27 | The analysis of intergenerational redistribution ( whether , for example , the generation now retired has had a better or worse deal over their lifetime than those currently in the labour force ) poses still more severe problems . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 30 | In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation . |