Example sentences of "[subord] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 2 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 3 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 4 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 5 | A House of Commons , faced with a crisis , could easily seek to make a more extended use of its power than has been the case during the era of self-restraint . |
| 6 | The books being published now are more attractive and relevant ; they are usually written by experienced and practising nurses rather than doctors , and as a result are more appealing to the reader and are reviewed more enthusiastically than has been the case in the past . |
| 7 | Korpi concludes that workplace bargaining is not more under the control of the central union organs in Swedish manufacturing industry than has been the case with its British counterpart . |
| 8 | For this reason EC merger policy should display less arbitrariness than has been the case within the UK . |
| 9 | ‘ It is my view they need an era of increased certainty which can now be built on the foundation of recent reform decisions and on which they can , with far more confidence than has been the case in the past , base and plan their futures . ’ |
| 10 | The enterprise which had begun to take off in Napoleonic Paris had undoubtedly made enormous progress ; far more was known about the world than had been a generation or two earlier . |
| 11 | Unwin 's early place in British town planning has already been noted ( see pp. 63 ) : at New Earswick , Letchworth and Hampstead , where traditions of vernacular architecture , linked to new forms of residential layout dictated by informality , open space and densities lower than had been the norm , provided both a practical base for a newly developing profession and a rallying cry for the future . |
| 12 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 13 | It seems a justifiable inference , too , that , even more than had been the case in 1939 , a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler 's assassination , and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war . |
| 14 | The Roman Empire was itself more acceptable to provincial subjects than had been the case in the age of Augustus , and the emperor 's taste for Greek art , well publicised by Hadrian 's zest for provincial travel , therefore enjoyed wide support . |
| 15 | The Company however was not willing simply to spend money , but intended to have somewhat closer control than had been the case in the more recent past . |
| 16 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 17 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 18 | But improvements were to occur , sometimes faster than had been the case before 1914 . |
| 19 | The new textbooks tended to deal more candidly with Japan 's pre-1945 aggression than had been the case previously . |
| 20 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |
| 21 | It 's as if having been a victim once , you suddenly realise you could be vulnerable again . |
| 22 | If the meaning of ‘ god ’ can be developed to be as flexible and free from the restrictions and constraints of earlier teachings and convictions as has been the development of medical science , then the future could be looked to with confidence and hope . |
| 23 | In an increasing number of cases , no margin at all , as has been the case in the past and is so today in parts of Africa . |
| 24 | It is clearly , on this basis , wholly insufficient to sample the equivalent of three/four voters per constituency , as has been the case . |
| 25 | The fear is that the current trend of mergers and joint ventures within the Community , far from promoting competition , may in fact stifle it , as has been the case with Bull in France , for example . |
| 26 | As has been the case since 1973 it is heavy fuel oil which will bear the brunt of the fall in oil demand . |
| 27 | Are inner cities only found as pockets of deprivation within an area of relative prosperity , as has been the case in London , Birmingham and New York , where the East End , Handsworth , and select sections of Manhattan and Long Island are traditionally contrasted with the rest of the city ? |
| 28 | The frets are Jim Dunlop 6230 medium size and have been finished quite nicely , with no sharp edges protruding over the fingerboard , as has been the case on some Ibanez guitars in the past . |
| 29 | Once successfully test flown , Don intends to sell the aircraft , as has been the case with previous replicas he has built — the Bristol M.1C and Sopwith Tabloid on display at the RAF Museum , Hendon . |
| 30 | Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past . |