Example sentences of "have been more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some other countries , such as the southern African nations , the situation has been similar to that of some parts of Latin America , but there has been more freedom in recent months . |
| 2 | In some other countries , such as the southern African nations , the situation has been similar to that of some parts of Latin America , but there has been more freedom in recent months . |
| 3 | Recently there has been more emphasis on shore-based facilities , and a fishing pier , fish drying factory and ice plant have been established at Breasclete on Loch Roag in Lewis as one of the Board 's biggest strategic projects . |
| 4 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 5 | Since then , the burden of scepticism imposed by the three cases had lightened ; and there has been more progress . |
| 6 | There has been more discussion of this phenomenon in relation to gender and race than age . |
| 7 | With the development of the NACAB policy of equal opportunities in recruitment there has been more awareness of this issue and considerable developments in recruitment practices have resulted . |
| 8 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 9 | Yes , there has been more consistency , a following of the capitalist competitive dream , which has paid good dividends . |
| 10 | After last week 's resignation of GM boss Bob Stempel , there has been more blood letting within the car giant . |
| 11 | There has been more violence and stabbing on the streets since the hours were extended . |
| 12 | During most of the same period , there has been more emigration from the United Kingdom than immigration to it . |
| 13 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 14 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry I could n't have been more help . ’ |
| 16 | In recent years there may have been more wealth and consumer goods around but people have seemed cynical , weary , amoral … |
| 17 | Elsewhere , there may have been more support . |
| 18 | " Hindsight is always easy , but I do n't think it would have worked , There would have been more bloodshed , more killing , but of the people in the streets , not of the people responsible , My husband did n't want bloodshed . " |
| 19 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |
| 20 | I felt there should have been more self-control . |
| 21 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 22 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
| 23 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 24 | A petition organized by the Jewish people 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism collected 77,000 signatures in two days ; it was felt that if there had been more time over a quarter of a million would have signed against Mosley 's proposed demonstration . |
| 25 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 26 | ‘ Our area manager said there had been more reaction to the closing of this post office than they had ever known , ’ Mr. Hover told the Herald . |
| 27 | Most Christian communicators have been more message than receptor oriented . |
| 28 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's been more water used on this floor than we 've had to wash ourselves and our clothes in since we left Liverpool ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There 's been more bloodshed in the Tower . |