Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The respect with which Britain is regarded in the world has rarely been higher . |
| 2 | Thus far , for instance , accuracies of land cover ( let alone what is often needed , i.e. land use ) determined from Landsat and SPOT imagery for the UK have rarely been higher than 70 per cent unless trivial classifications ( e.g. built/unbuilt land ) have been used . |
| 3 | John admitted recently that the economic climate has rarely been worse , and woodland owners have no financial rationale for management of this resource . |
| 4 | The tussle for the team award has rarely been tighter and with four to count Striders were clear winners with Sammy Doherty finishing fourth . |
| 5 | Small wonder that first-time buyers are now returning : buying a home has rarely been cheaper . |
| 6 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 7 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 8 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 9 | Might he perhaps been happier staying in Lahore to help in his father 's spare-parts business ? |
| 10 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 11 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 12 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 13 | As I shall seek to show , the political culture remains predominantly an allegiant one , and the important question to be addressed is not " why has there been a decline in the civic culture ? " but rather " why has that decline not been greater ? " |
| 14 | I concluded that chapter by suggesting that the important question was not " why had there been a decline in the civic culture , " but rather " why had that decline not been greater ? " |
| 15 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 16 | Real incomes for farmers have not been lower since the second world war , according to the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 17 | After a walk back to the inn and a half-hour wait , they set off again for Bath , very much relieved that matters had not been worse . |
| 18 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 19 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 20 | Sessions 's show endorses Petherbridge 's point as forcefully as possible , reminding us that , in 20th century drama , the big stars have always been bigger than the big roles . |
| 21 | Yeah has always been cheaper . |
| 22 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 23 | Numbers of council houses have , in any case , always been lower in rural than in urban areas . |
| 24 | The unit of resource ( the yearly cost per full time student ) has always been lower in the polytechnics than in the universities and recent downward pressure has widened the gap from £1,425 in 1982 to £2,315 in 1986/87 . |
| 25 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 26 | Fleur Adams had spoilt Dana in every way she could , to the exclusion of Claudia , who had always been closer to her father . |
| 27 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 28 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 29 | Eventual physical breakdown of the material is delayed by careful preparation of the substratum and it has always been safer to lay asphalt on concrete roof slabs than on timber boarding . |
| 30 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |