Example sentences of "have been [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 2 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
| 3 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 4 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 5 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 6 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 7 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 9 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |