Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 2 | Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested . |
| 3 | Yet the war proved far longer and more destructive than had been generally expected . |
| 4 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 5 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 6 | However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase . |
| 7 | Indeed , the size of the increases , together with the publication of the Kinsey Report in 1948 ( which suggested that homosexual behaviour was more widespread than had been commonly thought ) and the media-highlighted prosecution of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on an indecency charge in 1954 , culminated in what may reasonably be described as a ‘ moral panic ’ over homosexuality . |
| 8 | Female social participation may have been more widespread than has been realized . |
| 9 | Although industrial disputes were much less common than food riots , historians have recently come to recognise that they were much more frequent than had been allowed . |
| 10 | Such help is more complex than has been conveyed by my observations of the student 's work with John . |
| 11 | The issue of satisfaction with housework is more complex than has been suggested so far . |
| 12 | At that time this office was doubtless regarded as less significant than under an adult king , and Fordham was no politician , but proximity to the boy king and his household soon proved more important than had been intended . |
| 13 | ‘ These new results are much more extreme than had been suggested by the 20-year follow-up , where premature death was only twice as common in smokers as in non-smokers . |
| 14 | The information was available in the summer and , as the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland said , it is his experience as a local Member of Parliament that the nuclear industry is much more open than has been alleged by the hon. Member for Moray . |
| 15 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 16 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |