Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for 1993 , the job has been completed with more serious surgery to improve handling and performance and in the case of the convertible model doubling seating capacity . |
| 2 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 3 | The intent of this chapter is to present a model referred to as the ‘ Office of Innovation ’ , which has been implemented within more than ten Fortune 200 corporations . |
| 4 | The English language , as has been observed on more than one occasion , is frequently susceptible of ambiguity . |
| 5 | The ‘ Peak Panther ’ has been sighted for more than ten years , with several reports of a big black cat in and around New Mills . |
| 6 | Oxygen has been omitted because nearly all the oxygen in a planet resides in non-volatile oxides and silicates and it is extremely difficult to estimate how much of this oxygen has been liberated into more volatile forms and conversely how much oxygen originally in volatile forms has been lost by combination with various oxides and silicates . |
| 7 | Italy has been blessed with more great cities than any other European country — they are home to some of the most famous landmarks of the continent , they are unique and they are truly special . |
| 8 | Each morning temple drummers beat a tattoo to mark the passing of another stage in a year-long ritual that has been followed for more than a thousand years . |
| 9 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 10 | Two random facts : by the age of 16 , the average North American youth has been exposed to more than 300,000 television commercials ; and the Soviet Union is now selling advertising slots on cosmonaut suits and space ships ! |
| 11 | In other words , and this again has been emphasised in more recent feminist theory , we are dealing not just with a ( constructed ) difference , but with a hierarchy . |
| 12 | The ideal which has been referred to more than once in earlier chapters is that heads , other teachers , governors , parents and non-teaching staff should combine their efforts in some form of corporate management . |
| 13 | A new trust has been formed with more than £100,000 in its coffers to spend on visual arts , it was announced yesterday . |
| 14 | With the disposal of the eight Lilley subsidiaries now completed , Price Waterhouse reported that employment has been secured for more than 70 per cent of the Lilley Group 's 2,800 employees . |
| 15 | This interesting stance has been seen in more recent dinosaur fossil discoveries . |
| 16 | But that sort of view has been , has been challenged in more , in more recent years with empirical studies saying erm , er , sort of rural labour forces is quite likely to migrate , or some parts of the rural labour force are quite likely to migrate right , and it is rational to migrate , even in the presence of very high unemployment . |
| 17 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 18 | Where form has been an issue in this tradition , such as with narrative point of view in Henry James , it has been subsumed into more conventional questions such as theme and moral vision : form becomes a means of conveying these other questions . |
| 19 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 20 | With only a few more bribing days left before the general election and in view of the fact that the House has been televised for more than two years , will the Prime Minister tell us whether he is prepared to take part in televised debates during the general election campaign with the Leader of the Opposition — yes or no ? |
| 21 | The laboratory , at Evesham in Worcestershire , has been operating for more than forty years . |
| 22 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 23 | Lighting can create atmosphere as well as fulfilling a practical purpose and in many dwellings the fluorescent strip has been replaced by more subtle means of ceiling and wall lighting . |
| 24 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 25 | ‘ Origins of the Present Crisis ’ , published in New Left Review in 1964 , and ‘ Components of the National Culture ’ , four years later , were texts of their times that excited a generation which , at least in many of the social sciences and humanities , now commands the heights of the academic system even if their radicalism has been dulled by more recent discontents . |
| 26 | — A lifetime prevalence of social phobia has been identified in more than 25% of anorexia nervosa patients . |
| 27 | It has been backed by more than 40 MPs . |
| 28 | A continent-by-continent survey of the Earth 's major morphological features is to be found in the book by King ( 1967 ) ( although its treatment of tectonic processes and landform development has been superseded by more recent research ) . |
| 29 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 30 | My longcase clocks are entirely handcrafted , with brass and dial work , engraving , silvering , hand piercing and bluing , etc. … undertaken in association with Steve Kelly , the renowned Exeter clockmaker — who has been practising for more than 65 years — and other craft specialists . |