Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that first-time buyers are now returning : buying a home has rarely been cheaper . |
| 2 | John admitted recently that the economic climate has rarely been worse , and woodland owners have no financial rationale for management of this resource . |
| 3 | The tussle for the team award has rarely been tighter and with four to count Striders were clear winners with Sammy Doherty finishing fourth . |
| 4 | The respect with which Britain is regarded in the world has rarely been higher . |
| 5 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 6 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 7 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 8 | It is doubtful if , even in the nineteenth century , the power of the British literary mind over the earth has ever been greater than in the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 10 | Eventual physical breakdown of the material is delayed by careful preparation of the substratum and it has always been safer to lay asphalt on concrete roof slabs than on timber boarding . |
| 11 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 12 | The unit of resource ( the yearly cost per full time student ) has always been lower in the polytechnics than in the universities and recent downward pressure has widened the gap from £1,425 in 1982 to £2,315 in 1986/87 . |
| 13 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 14 | Yeah has always been cheaper . |
| 15 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 16 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 17 | The MRY has always been meatier than the black-and-whites , yet the cows are also good milk producers with average yields of more than 6,000kg at 4.25 per cent butterfat . |
| 18 | Communications by sea across the enclosed waters of the Adriatic has always been easier than by land routes across the mountains or along the narrow coastal strip . |
| 19 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 20 | Post Office and many houses , there are also earthworks indicating that the village has formerly been larger or has moved . |
| 21 | In addition , the breed has been very widely exported and has played a major role in the creation or improvement of many other breeds : its influence has probably been greater than any other breed except perhaps the Friesian group and its adaptability is legendary . |
| 22 | ‘ Piece Of Cake ’ , however , suggests that my loss has probably been greater than theirs . |
| 23 | However , the vaccine 's effectiveness in developing countries , particularly in inducing serum neutralising antibodies against poliovirus types 1 and 3 , has often been lower than expected . |
| 24 | Nobody has even been better in bed than Constanza and Ludovico . ’ |
| 25 | The need for businesses to reduce costs has seldom been greater . |
| 26 | The drop in the number of people working has actually been greater in the latest recession than between 1979 and 1983 , a period when industry was supposed to be shaking out overmanned jobs . |
| 27 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 28 | In west Berlin , suddenly presented with armies of new customers by the disappearance of the border , business has never been better . |
| 29 | Saying business around the world has never been better , Grove said he is puzzled by Intel 's steep stock market fall . |
| 30 | The youth situation has never been better , We 're still in with a chance of getting into Europe and the club is fiancially viable . |