Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | A capital intensive fruit plantation in the valley floor of a central American Republic can ‘ cause ’ soil erosion on hillsides which are being cultivated by peasants who have been dispossessed of more suitable land for cultivation . |
| 2 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 3 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 4 | This treaty was opposed by the Algerian backed Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia y Rio de Oro ( Polisario Front ) which in February 1976 proclaimed an independent Saharan Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) , which by the time of its admission to the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) in 1982 had been recognized by more than 70 countries . |
| 5 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 6 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 7 | The ideal which has been referred to more than once in earlier chapters is that heads , other teachers , governors , parents and non-teaching staff should combine their efforts in some form of corporate management . |
| 8 | I have also been experimenting with more knitted ‘ jewellery ’ . |
| 9 | A new trust has been formed with more than £100,000 in its coffers to spend on visual arts , it was announced yesterday . |
| 10 | The body had been formed from more than one carcass . |
| 11 | He claimed to have been consulted by more than one European government about his knowledge of espionage and he certainly made the most of his sense of melodrama , during his later years always carrying a revolver . |
| 12 | Now for 1993 , the job has been completed with more serious surgery to improve handling and performance and in the case of the convertible model doubling seating capacity . |
| 13 | Two random facts : by the age of 16 , the average North American youth has been exposed to more than 300,000 television commercials ; and the Soviet Union is now selling advertising slots on cosmonaut suits and space ships ! |
| 14 | Furthermore , some of these sorts of approaches have been modified for more general use with those who are not already suffering a psychiatric disorder . |
| 15 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 16 | It seems however to have been supplemented by more informal methods . |
| 17 | This has now been superseded by more postnatal exercises and physiotherapy . |
| 18 | A continent-by-continent survey of the Earth 's major morphological features is to be found in the book by King ( 1967 ) ( although its treatment of tectonic processes and landform development has been superseded by more recent research ) . |
| 19 | King ( 1967 ) is still useful for its descriptions of the continental landscapes of plate interiors although his interpretations of the tectonic processes involved have now been superseded by more recent work . |
| 20 | A holding camp designed for 480 boat people has been brimming with more than 1,000 . |
| 21 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 22 | But what was probably more significant was the fact that the target of the DHAC , the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , was so widely execrated and the fact that the ammunition it fired had already been prepared by more traditional anti-Unionists . |
| 23 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 24 | It was recorded as early as 1749 , by the French astronomer Legentil , though presumably it must have been noticed in more ancient times . |
| 25 | The laboratory , at Evesham in Worcestershire , has been operating for more than forty years . |
| 26 | The barns , stables and servants ' quarters had been made into more or less monastic cells in which visiting artists or writers could work or sleep off the night 's excesses , alone or together . |
| 27 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 28 | Restriction orders banning cattle movement and sale of milk and meat have now been imposed on more than 300 farms , mostly in Cornwall and Devon but also in the Midlands . |
| 29 | With the disposal of the eight Lilley subsidiaries now completed , Price Waterhouse reported that employment has been secured for more than 70 per cent of the Lilley Group 's 2,800 employees . |
| 30 | Where form has been an issue in this tradition , such as with narrative point of view in Henry James , it has been subsumed into more conventional questions such as theme and moral vision : form becomes a means of conveying these other questions . |