Example sentences of "have [been] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 2 | Toby continued : ‘ As for this Harley business , we now know that there has been a closer relationship between Martinez and Jefferson over the years than the normal one of agent and manufacturer . |
| 3 | This probably underestimates the extent to which there has been a wider shift away from direct council provision , however . |
| 4 | There has been a greater emphasis on cosmic perspectives generally — such as the ‘ panspermia ’ theory ( the notion that the ‘ seeds ’ of organic life drifted to Earth from outer space ) — to explain both the origin of life on Earth and the frequent recurrence of plagues and viruses which have taken their toll of life in the past . |
| 5 | Side-by-side with this has been a greater emphasis on the link with organizational behaviour and decision analysis , with a growing recognition of the importance of political processes within firms , quite apart from those around them . |
| 6 | However , as educational standards have improved , there has been a greater awareness of mental handicap in children , and improved medical skills have led to more research into its causes . |
| 7 | The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus . |
| 8 | That is one more reason why , across the south , there has been a greater swing to Labour than in any other region and why , I must point out to the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , who seeks to speak for my native county , we look forward to a smashing victory in his constituency at the next election . |
| 9 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 10 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 11 | It has proved impossible to determine whether the French LFA farmer is better off financially having loans compared with his UK counterpart receiving a capital grant ; the indications are that the UK system has been a greater incentive , especially towards land improvements . |
| 12 | And it must be said that while there has been a greater interest in ferreting and in the shooting side of rabbiting the netting interest has declined . |
| 13 | In recent years especially , it would appear that there has been a greater confidence among policy makers and market participants concerning the ability of market forces to secure many of the aforementioned policy objectives and to challenge the appropriateness of certain forms of pre-existing financial sector regulatory measures . |
| 14 | Turning from the functions of legislating and authorizing both expenditure and taxation to the other traditional function of pressing the government , the procedures involved have also undergone change but there has been a greater effort made to keep this weapon sharpened and up to the armour it has to pierce . |
| 15 | Of particular note has been a further reduction in the amount of total wastes produced and the maintaining of energy efficiency across the Group . |
| 16 | There has been a further growth in the importance of information technology , to the state where entire curricula have been revised on the assumption that students coming up from school can programme quite complex computers within their first year . |
| 17 | Its initial impression , according to one of its members , Scott Fowler , was that there has been a further improvement . |
| 18 | First , there has been a harder look at the components of the nursing process to assess whether nursing skills were appropriately used and related to the needs of patients or whether they followed old-established but unvalidated local custom and practice . |
| 19 | This means that in terms of proportions of total employment there has been a faster shift away from manufacturing in the regions of the north than in the regions of the south ; there has been faster deindustrialization , measured in these terms also , in north than south . |
| 20 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 21 | The recent single , Love You All My Lifetime , should have been a bigger hit and shows that Chaka can still sound as if she 's bursting with all the joys of spring . |
| 22 | As an example to the world that the young were powerful , that money was not the be-all and end-all , Apple could hardly have been a bigger failure . |
| 23 | One of the features of the years 765–85 may have been a closer involvement on Offa 's part with the kingdom of the East Angles . |
| 24 | There could hardly have been a clearer contrast between the raw truth and the glossy image . |
| 25 | These grand buildings , both seminary and church , set in one of the most important squares in the city , could not have been a clearer statement from the victors of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 26 | Folly did n't say anything , but she could n't help thinking that the Post Office Tower would have been a better vantage-point , as well as being one of the ‘ sights ’ of London in its own right . |
| 27 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |
| 28 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
| 29 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 30 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |