Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 2 | Hawaii has exhibited a much faster rate of construction , but its volcanism will be short-lived as it will be carried away from its magma source by plate motion . |
| 3 | Figures for receivership were less positive , but entirely consistent with the view that the region has suffered a much shorter and less severe recession than any other . |
| 4 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 5 | For a long time , however , Northern Ireland has had a much higher unemployment rate than the UK as a whole and has represented the extreme of regional disparity . |
| 6 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , I mean it 's about to decide whether you lose situations now I lose Everybody else is much better than me , everybody else has got a far better right to actually |
| 8 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
| 9 | In the period since Swann the collection of official statistics on educational achievements has displayed a slightly greater sensitivity and discrimination . |
| 10 | No doubt in some cases this was true , but as research has indicated a much denser pattern of settlement in earlier periods , and as continuity seems to be the norm , the role of churches has required re-examination . |
| 11 | Through time wine has taken a much larger share of the domestic market . |
| 12 | And so on , right to the very end : ‘ As each story [ the reviewer is now only talking about Mr Herriot ] grinds to its predictable punchline , it is as if Herriot has ground a slightly stronger dose of the Nembutal that he uses to dope recalcitrant patients into each successive page . |
| 13 | This has been the case in the past 30 years , and for those on low wages it has meant a relatively lower contribution has been made towards the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme . |
| 14 | Since 1986 , HMSO has published a much cheaper annual summary compendium called Key Data . |
| 15 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 16 | In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii . |
| 17 | One of the only four known examples of the form by Newport 's major maker , even restoration to its feet would not have prevented a far higher price in the boom of the late 1980s . |
| 18 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 19 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 20 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 21 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In previous decades a similar swing would have produced a much higher majority . |
| 24 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 25 | You might have had a slightly harder time finding the money in 1965 than in 1964 , though . |
| 26 | With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | If this reading of Ali is correct , it would seem that simply in terms of his daily allowance the kasabat kadi was better off financially at the beginning of his career than the new muderris ; but in any case , given the fees the kadi could expect to receive , he must have had a considerably greater income . |
| 30 | It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average . |