Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [subord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , research concerning bereavement has been particularly revealing because some prospective work is possible . |
| 2 | Admittedly Czech history has been more turbulent than that of Louisiana , but we have to realise that there is a principle at stake . |
| 3 | But she still laboured under the apprehension that she had to prove herself better than a famous opponent who has been more successful than any other English singles player of the decade . |
| 4 | But workers ' influence has been more constrained than these provisions might suggest . |
| 5 | U-TURNS galore have been the main feature of Government activity in the past month but none has been more important than that over the economy . |
| 6 | However , this legislation has been less effective than many of its supporters had wanted and most cases of discrimination against women which are taken before the industrial tribunals do not succeed . |
| 7 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 8 | Some change has inevitably taken place but it has been less significant than many would have predicted . |
| 9 | Almost apologetically , Mr Coughlin conceded that ‘ Britain also has been less diligent than some of its neighbours in setting out a timetable for reducing nitrate in water ’ . |
| 10 | He 'd been more on-target than either of them had known . |
| 11 | Before Cowley could voice his astonished irritation at that complacent comment , Hogan hurried on , ‘ It would have been altogether different if this Doyle of yours had died , believe me . |
| 12 | The changes must have been as great as those in western Europe after 1789 , but their impact could only be traced piecemeal . |
| 13 | ‘ It might not have been as simple as that . ’ |
| 14 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 15 | Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day . |
| 16 | Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 17 | They 've had some important and notable cup victories here in their time have Shrewsbury Town , but none can have been as dramatic as this match , whatever the final result turns out to be . |
| 18 | I should n't have been as thin as this . |
| 19 | One can easily argue against its privatisation in emotive terms but it would have been more helpful if both your correspondents had taken the point that the UK economy is not exactly in robust good health . |
| 20 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 21 | They had been ‘ set up ’ for the day by their large breakfast and so might have been more active than those who were hungry during the daytime . |
| 22 | He must have been more confused than any of us ; or perhaps his ignorance prevented him from grasping just how bad things were . |
| 23 | The JSP campaign was generally felt to have been less effective than that which it had fought in 1989 . |
| 24 | It was hard to remember what her life had been like before Leo came , but , whatever it had been , it had to have been more peaceful than this . |
| 25 | That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance . |
| 26 | That moment seems in retrospect to have been more exciting than any of the films that followed . |
| 27 | In the process of definition the subdivisions of the gentry are shown to have been as numerous as those of the peerage ( which for the present purpose need not be set out in detail ) , and noticeably more complex . |
| 28 | It had been more roundabout than that but that was basically it . |
| 29 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 30 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |