Example sentences of "[been] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 2 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 3 | The fittest in British society should therefore have been the lower class and the immigrant , both of whom had higher birth rates than the upper classes . |
| 4 | A crucial factor had been the tighter safety regime introduced by the regulatory authorities following first , the notorious 1975 fire at the Brown 's Ferry plant , and then the 1979 Three Mile Island accident . |
| 5 | One of the consequences of the uncertainty in the region has been the closer identification of Hong Kong Chinese with British links and the formation of a Hong Kong branch of Convocation . |
| 6 | However , it has been the closer integration of the European Community which has dominated the economic development agenda . |
| 7 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 8 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 9 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 10 | Mason fears death might have been the better part , and asks Gray to contribute to the benefit on his behalf . |
| 11 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 13 | I think you know it 's hard you g got to go with Leicester at the moment because they 're in the pole position and I have for my money been the better side but er Forest do look capable of snatching an equalizer . |
| 14 | Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches . |
| 15 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 16 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 17 | Also it has been the larger institutions that have benefited from low dealing commissions since the ‘ big bang ’ in October 1987 . |
| 18 | It is not clear however that it has been the stronger adversary which has done so , rather than a weaker party with its back to the wall . |
| 19 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 20 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |
| 21 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 22 | There has been no greater continuity in the economic power of railways than in tapping minerals . |
| 23 | ‘ That 'll be nice , ’ Martha replied , as if there 'd been no earlier ruction . |
| 24 | ‘ So by this time this news of yours should also have reached both Ramsey and Worcester , if there have been no further ambushes on the way , as God forbid ! |
| 25 | Darlington Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said public transport minister Roger Freeman had pledged to meet the management of Caldaire , which owns the site in question but there had been no further word from him . |
| 26 | Yesterday , as the group of cockle pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
| 27 | Yesterday , as the group of pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
| 28 | ‘ Since you gave the strategic movement order , General Fakrid , ’ the first replied briskly , ‘ there have been no further engagements with the enemy and no further casualties . ’ |
| 29 | There had been no further news of Alfred since he was seen by one of the hotel staff in Lady Street at eight that morning . |
| 30 | Significantly , on the following day at Smithfield , after the deaths of Sudbury and Hales , there seem to have been no further demands concerning ‘ traitors ’ , but further ones about social and legal status , that there should be no lordship apart from the King 's , that the Church should be disendowed and ( cryptically ) that there should be no law except that of Winchester ( 11 , pp.161–5 ) . |