Example sentences of "have [adv] been [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 2 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |
| 3 | At least , that is the way it was with mine and I do n't believe there has ever been a nicer person . |
| 4 | I think that , regrettably , there has always been a higher unemployment rate among people with disabilities than among the rest of the population . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In this country , where the concept of science has always been the narrower one associated with the paradigm of the natural sciences , there is still in most institutions a very firm institutional demarcation between arts or humanities on the one hand and the social sciences on the other , a demarcation which will be explored later . |
| 7 | But there has also been a wider questioning of the whole conception of a transition to socialism . |
| 8 | There has never been a better time for supporting the white rose |
| 9 | With all the new and reintroduced varieties now on the market there has never been a better time to grow from seed . |
| 10 | THERE has never been a better time to build a dream home at a bargain price . |
| 11 | There has never been a better time to be a member of the Association . |
| 12 | With bands like Nirvana , the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine beyond reproach from the music press and the record-buying public there has never been a better time to play guitars with manic fervour . |
| 13 | Mind you their rate of exchange if if you 'd have bought all pesetas in this country it would have probably been a better rate of exchange for you . |
| 14 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 15 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 16 | Celia , the younger by ten minutes , had always been the weaker , but it was Dermot who 'd come home from school first , complaining of a sore throat . |
| 17 | Oliver and girls — it 's always been a trickier subject than he likes to make out . |
| 18 | More recently , profitable crops have often been a greater consideration than improving the taste of the apple . |
| 19 | Fred reckons there 's never been a clearer example of what he means . |
| 20 | Simon Creese-Parsons , who sells fine decorative pieces at Jadis , reckons : ‘ There 's never been a better time to buy . ’ |
| 21 | As the slogan on the front of the club 's glossy new brochure proclaims : ‘ There 's never been a better time to be involved with Yorkshire Cricket . ’ |
| 22 | There 's never been a better time to invest in a new Living Flame gas fire , hearth and surround . |