Example sentences of "than [verb] [adv] been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |
| 2 | A recent work on political theory in ancient Greece has pursued this question more explicitly than has traditionally been the case in classical scholarship and provides a further check to our ready acceptance of Goody 's grander claims for the consequences of literacy in classical Greece . |
| 3 | The Developmental model of leadership advocated by Banner and Blasingame will require greater responsibility and the identification of leadership lower down the organisational structure than has traditionally been the case within either central or local government . |
| 4 | General practitioners will require a higher level of knowledge and expertise in psychiatry than has previously been the case . |
| 5 | However , to change the behaviour of young children and to maintain the changes requires programmes of instruction that are ‘ far more intensive than has conventionally been the case in the past . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 7 | Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 8 | There is an overwhelming body of evidence that British employers are more aware of the importance of training for their future than has ever been the case in the past . |
| 9 | But it does imply the need for caution in making extreme claims about the distances of quasars based solely on redshift evidence , and it does suggest that Arp 's evidence concerning other , similar associations should be taken more seriously than has often been the case . |
| 10 | These two pursued a much more interventionist policy than had previously been the case , using government-directed investment policy , as well as certain spending controls and tax increases , to tackle unemployment , reduce the budget deficit and restore economic growth . |
| 11 | Even here the practice altered , for there was much fuller consultation about the preparation of the 1983 manifesto than had previously been the case . |
| 12 | While some argue that the anti-labour nature of many of the governments in such low-wage countries makes the task of the TNCs even easier , others argue that the TNCs tend to bring a more progressive atmosphere into labour relations than had previously been the case in such countries . |
| 13 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 14 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |