Example sentences of "have [been] the more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years since the end of the mandate , it is difficult to say which side , if either , has been the more intransigent . |
| 2 | My concern , however , has been the more modest one of simply characterising and comparing classical and positivist ideas . |
| 3 | There is perhaps some small irony to be derived from speculating whose legacy has been the more significant now that illiterate hand-written memos can be reproduced instantly on the other side of the globe with every graphic spasm intact . |
| 4 | Generally it is the shorter , smaller player who has been the more adept at handling fast , short-pitched bowling . |
| 5 | The second strand of policy was to encourage multinationals to use France and Britain as production bases ; this latter aspect of policy seems to have been the more successful strand . |
| 6 | In the light of his statistical results , Keeble concluded that regional policy had been the more significant influence . |
| 7 | They had been the more surprised when , at the age of 32 , she had married Sir Henry Berowne , apparently for less obvious qualities , and had given him two sons . |
| 8 | Then there have been the more elaborate perversions which parody the sophistication of high art — Joe Orton 's and Kenneth Halliwell 's defacing of library books , Duchamp 's moustache on Mona Lisa . |
| 9 | Elsewhere in these parts , it 's been the more traditional ( i.e. more modern ) panto . |