Example sentences of "[adv] been a more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 2 | Actions for damages ( as opposed to injunctions ) have not so far figured largely in litigation against individuals caused by industrial action ; the limits to union liability set by the 1982 Act are low in relation to the loss that may be suffered and the very large fines imposed for contempt by disobedience to injunctions have probably been a more powerful sanction . |
| 3 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 4 | SIR — The late , great Mr. X , of whom there has never been a more acute analyst of the golf swing , was always emphatic about the ‘ right shin post ’ , as he described it , being an essential requisite of a good swing . |
| 5 | Vote now , pay later has never been a more frightening truth . |
| 6 | There had never been a more insolent ambush . |
| 7 | There 's never been a more attractive way to see what GLA can do for you . |
| 8 | At the close of the 1990–91 season 's business , Phil Barber was Palace 's longest-serving current player and had joined the select troupe of men to have played over 250 games for The Eagles some fourteen months previously , so that is fair to say that there has seldom been a more popular fellow to wear the Palace colours . |
| 9 | But we deal at somewhat greater length with the language aspects of the English curriculum than with those concerned with literature , because language , including such matters as Standard English , the use of linguistic terminology , the teaching of grammar and knowledge about language , has recently been a more contentious subject than the teaching of literature . |