Example sentences of "have been [verb] more [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of universalism has been strengthened more recently by the work of Braverman ( 1974 ) who argued that ‘ Taylorism ’ represents the essence of capitalist management , the profoundly anti-democratic invariant to be found within all branches of capitalist production , imposed by the rationality of profit . |
| 2 | That is why the road fund licence , which taxes ownership rather than use , has been increased more rapidly after a period of stagnation . |
| 3 | The point has been made more generally by Eldridge in his historical survey of workers ' resistance ( 1971 , pp.45–64 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ If geography is to play a full role in the study of environmental problems it is important that greater stress be given to the biosphere , which constitutes a vital resource base for man , and which has been altered more extensively by human activities than most other elements of the environment . ’ |
| 5 | It has been defined more precisely as the region of the head-capsule on which arise the pharyngeal dilator muscles , but even this criterion is not entirely satisfactory . |
| 6 | Certainly no impression from visits to primary schools in Africa has been borne more strongly on me than the importance of providing opportunities for the professional growth and survival of teachers in schools . |
| 7 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 8 | It was excavated by Bushe-Fox in 1911–12 , and has been excavated more extensively within the last ten years by Barry Cunliffe , using the latest archaeological techniques . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , neurophysiological and psychophysiological evidence has been taken more seriously by some AI researches — notably by David Marr 's group at MIT . |
| 10 | In France , psychoanalysis has been taken more seriously by both feminists and philosophers , and the psychoanalytic model used as a basis for the reconceptualisation of a number of philosophical issues . |
| 11 | For these wells either the section has been buried more deeply in the past than at present or geothermal gradients have been significantly higher in certain parts of the basin . |
| 12 | Since 1979 , wealth has been spread more widely through the community . |
| 13 | The exact relation between these solutions has been established more recently by Chandrasekhar and Ferrari ( 1984 ) , and Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1985 a ) , and exploited by these authors and their colleagues . |
| 14 | Since the recent introduction of the Children 's Act , the aim has been to work more closely with the natural parents , with a view to returning youngsters to their own homes as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | However , the evidence from Pittsburgh indicates that the community group , instead of acting as an oppositional force , has been brought more emphatically within the institutional orbit , both through the mechanisms for consultation and as it becomes formally integrated into local policy making . |
| 16 | There is good evidence that Cryptosporidium caused acute gastroenteritis as it has been found more frequently in the stools of children with diarrhoeal disease than controls and has been detected in diarrhoeal outbreaks . |
| 17 | This point could not have been made more clearly in July of 1990 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , when in evidence to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons he said : |
| 18 | Alternatively , sulphate may have been absorbed more completely in the small intestine of these subjects with insufficient amounts being available for colonic sulphate reduction . |
| 19 | These expenditures may also have generated inflation and wasted talent which could have been used more effectively in resolving more pressing social and industrial problems . |
| 20 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 21 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 22 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 23 | So far Japanese management expertise seems to have been transferred more successfully into the manufacturing sector than into financial services . |
| 24 | Incomes policy had been applied more rigorously in the state sector there too , and the winter of 1969–70 saw the novel spectacle of group after group of public sector workers rejecting settlements negotiated by their leaderships . |
| 25 | His much-publicised remarks have been followed more recently by outbursts from veteran India correspondent Mark Tully and playwright Denis Potter . |
| 26 | Aspects of these various models have been challenged more recently by historians , especially those interested in family reconstitution . |
| 27 | These questions have been explored more fully by researchers in North America than they have in Britain ( Sussman , 1965 ; Cheal , 1983 ) but the findings of recent British studies seem broadly to be in line with this work ( Qureshi and Simons , 1987 ; Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | With regard to HBV , markers of past or current infection have been found more commonly in patients with alcoholic liver disease than in the general population in some studies but not others . |
| 29 | They have been appearing more recently in Japan . |
| 30 | Despite the break in exploration drilling , the Algerian project team has been busy — 30,000 kms of existing seismic data , predominantly acquired by the Algerian state oil company , Sonatrach , have been processed at Anadarko 's Algiers centre , while a further 4,500 kms of data have been acquired more recently by the joint venture . |