Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a more " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 2 | The right to abortion on psychological or social grounds had not been included in a more restrictive earlier draft . |
| 3 | What had really occurred was that the Hollywood style had been updated and a large number of films had been located in a more contemporary urban setting . |
| 4 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 5 | For the T-series , the organic body styling of the Buzz bass has been rationalised to a more streamlined , elongated outline , with the current favourite sharkfin-shaped top horn . |
| 6 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 7 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 8 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 9 | Financial institutions have thus been encouraged to move into new areas of business , but at the same time have been regulated on a more formal basis than before . |
| 10 | This , however , does not represent a loss to the incoming population , to whom is left open the chance of reconstructing a sense of ‘ community ’ once the village has been transformed into a more homogeneously residential , as opposed to agricultural , settlement . |
| 11 | ( Moss 1989a ) A view of all-powerful texts exerting ideological effects on a vulnerable readership has been replaced by a more complex understanding of the relationship between text and reader in which texts appear more contradictory and readers able to answer back . |
| 12 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 13 | No longer does Gascoigne want to take on the world single-handed , and his reckless nature has been replaced by a more thoughtful approach . |
| 14 | The traditional demographic structure , which was pyramid-like in shape , with a wide base ( indicating a large number of young people ) and narrow top ( indicating few people in the older age groups ) , has been replaced by a more equal distribution among the different age groups . |
| 15 | Platt , scorer of his country 's last five goals , has been shackled into a more defensive role since his £6.5 million move from Bari to Juventus in the summer . |
| 16 | Within Stoddards it has been renamed to a more focused ‘ Customers Demand Care ’ . |
| 17 | Plinth heights can be varied to allow flexibility of design , as seen here where the dishwasher has been raised to a more comfortable height . |
| 18 | The question of endangerment has already been raised in a more general fashion in Chapter 7.7 . |
| 19 | No administration has been more conscious of the political power of TV or , Kennedy apart , been blessed with a more gifted exploiter of the medium as president . |
| 20 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 21 | The point has been well put by Vivien Hart in comparing American and British approaches : " In America , " she wrote , " the emphasis has been on what democracy is and should be , while Britain has been characterised by a more pragmatic and less urgent emphasis on what democracy is and can be . " |
| 22 | The idea that the only thing to do about social ills , poverty and injustice is to evangelize , has been supplanted by a more holistic approach . |
| 23 | Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it . |
| 24 | This trend reflects a developing and successful specificity of probation practice : the pity is that this specificity of practice has not been complemented by a more appropriate specificity of language from the authors of the White Paper . |
| 25 | Even in the case of a regular wage-earner or salaried employee , there might be complications ; for example , the plaintiff might claim that he would have been promoted to a more remunerative post ( in which case the court must assess his prospects of promotion and award damages accordingly ) or the defendant may claim that the plaintiff 's employer had suffered severe business setbacks that necessitated redundancies and that the plaintiff would have lost his employment ( in which case the court must consider all the circumstances and award as damages what it estimates to have been the plaintiff 's net loss ) . |
| 26 | With the advent of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy the management of Dieulafoy 's disease has been directed towards a more careful surgical intervention on the one hand and successful bleeding control by injection treatment on the other hand . |
| 27 | The authorities reported on Jan. 11 that Francis Ona , the leader of the Bougainville rebels , had been killed by a more militant faction of the BRA and had been succeeded by Sam Kauona , an explosives expert trained by the Australian Army . |
| 28 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 29 | These conclusions have been confirmed in a more extensive study by Kleidon and Whaley ( 1992 ) . |
| 30 | It is easy to Find more simple language in which the same ideas might have been expressed in a more humdrum context : delay for procrastinate , for example , or pay for remuneration . |