Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 2 | This project aims to contribute towards improving the accuracy of economic forecasts by exploiting the concept of the ‘ leading indicator ’ more thoroughly than has been done before . |
| 3 | The books being published now are more attractive and relevant ; they are usually written by experienced and practising nurses rather than doctors , and as a result are more appealing to the reader and are reviewed more enthusiastically than has been the case in the past . |
| 4 | The new sewage plant in Kiln Lane , with which residents had ‘ not been overjoyed ’ , was now working more efficiently and has been landscaped with fencing , shrubs and ivy . |
| 5 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 6 | Appointing the FDP leader Walter Scheel as foreign minister and ably assisted by Egon Bahr , Brandt developed ‘ Ostpolitik ’ much more dramatically than had been possible under the Grand Coalition , in a situation where East-West détente was increasingly more welcome to the US and so need not endanger Western unity . |
| 7 | He had completed the commission , rather more fully than had been envisaged , and all that was required of him now was to deliver it . |
| 8 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |