Example sentences of "have be [adj -er] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 2 | Historically the industry has been better at peripherals than add-ins , but it contends that the elements are now in place for redressing the balance . |
| 3 | ‘ Britain 's performance has been worse in each succeeding phase , ’ he comments . |
| 4 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 5 | As a proportion of GNP , the total spent on R&D by firms and government has been higher in Japan than in America every year since the early 1960s . |
| 6 | In some ways history has been kinder to Minkowski than to his older rival in the french Academy 's competition , the deceased Oxford professor , Henry John Stephen Smith . |
| 7 | In Angola the support for Jonas Savimbi 's UNITA has been stronger amongst the Ovimbundu people of the central plateau than amongst the rest of the population . |
| 8 | Implementing change has been easier for parish church cathedrals , for obvious reasons . |
| 9 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 10 | It has been easier in the past to give in to the child 's demands , so learning to set limits across all aspects of the child 's behaviour can be critical for coping with the battles about food . |
| 11 | Growth has been faster by means of these ‘ bridges of God ’ , to use Donald McGavran 's phrase . |
| 12 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 13 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 14 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 15 | ‘ I wish I 'd been older on the Drive , ’ said Nooty . |
| 16 | If I 'd been kinder to Leon would he have done those things ? |
| 17 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 18 | Still , she might have been nicer to the kindly old man . |
| 19 | Why the hell could n't you have been nicer to her , Mother ? ’ |
| 20 | They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case . |
| 21 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 22 | The observed maximal effect was reached in the fourth hour although we do not know whether secretion would still have been higher in the fifth or sixth hour . |
| 23 | If manufacturing employment had remained at the 1966 level until 1974 then output would have been higher by 8.6 percent ; but if Britain had matched French or German growth in output per man hour since 1958 then even with the reduction in the labour force the 1974 output level would have been higher by no less than 70 per cent [ Gomulka , 1979 ] . |
| 24 | If manufacturing employment had remained at the 1966 level until 1974 then output would have been higher by 8.6 percent ; but if Britain had matched French or German growth in output per man hour since 1958 then even with the reduction in the labour force the 1974 output level would have been higher by no less than 70 per cent [ Gomulka , 1979 ] . |
| 25 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
| 26 | The former topless model turned singer could n't have been closer to her father Pat Fox , and mother Carole , at the height of her glamour career . |
| 27 | If he had to be shifted to Ireland , why could n't it have been Dublin where he 'd at least have been nearer to Elizabeth and might have managed to hop over to England more often . |
| 28 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the data suggest that if levels were more accurate they would have been lower in the peptic ulcer group . |
| 30 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |