Example sentences of "there have been a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This probably underestimates the extent to which there has been a wider shift away from direct council provision , however . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There has been a greater social and economic input in structure plans than in development plans , but there is little agreement as to the scope of social planning ( R. Williams 1976 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin has proved to the hilt that there has been a greater , easier and more eager resort to the guillotine than at any time in English parliamentary history . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have revised our premium rates because of the continuing increase in the cost of theft claims — 1983 saw a 24% increase over 1982 and there has been a further 12% increase in the first half of 1984 . |
| 15 | Since then there has been a further , more extreme freshening ( and cooling ) on this density surface . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |
| 20 | Was she a fool to hope there had been a deeper meaning in that fierce command ? |
| 21 | Natwest Bancorp said there had been a further reduction of charge-offs with its allowance for loan losses standing at $568m , or 4.68 p.c. of total lending . |
| 22 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 23 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 24 | He seemed to be unaware that there had been a further post-duopoly review and that competition within the telecommunications industry is being opened up generally . |
| 25 | Probably there had been an earlier Atlantic which came to an end with the Caledonian orogeny , but this was the beginning of the ocean that we have today . |
| 26 | Should there have been a better on-site fire squad ? |