Example sentences of "have be [adj -er] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Still , she might have been nicer to the kindly old man . |
| 3 | Why the hell could n't you have been nicer to her , Mother ? ’ |
| 4 | They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the data suggest that if levels were more accurate they would have been lower in the peptic ulcer group . |
| 14 | 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 — |
| 15 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 16 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 17 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 18 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 19 | Things could hardly have been worse for her . |
| 20 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 21 | ‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted . |
| 22 | While the exact size of this latter group is unclear , Peter Clark has estimated that as many as one fifth of the population of Kent regularly stayed away from church in the later sixteenth century , and the situation may well have been worse in the peripheral ‘ dark corners of the land ’ to the north and west . |
| 23 | After all , last night could have been worse in that respect … |
| 24 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 25 | Con always knew where to stop , and he knew where you should stop as well , and if you did n't , he reminded you that you 'd have been better following his example . ’ |
| 26 | It would have been better on water , Masklin was told later , but Shrub had brought them down on land . |
| 27 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 28 | Would it have been better with another family on board ? |
| 29 | ‘ Now I think I would have been better with a woman , as you are , no ? |
| 30 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |