Example sentences of "[vb base] been more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 2 | erm No , no I do n't think so , I 've erm been a successful I 've been more successful that most and I it would appear greedy if I erm said that there was something that I think I would have done differently . |
| 3 | Joanna Foster , chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission , says that while virtually every politician and company has accepted that more must be done , there have been more words than action : ‘ Provision is patchy and mostly accessible only to high income groups . |
| 4 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 5 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 6 | Most Christian communicators have been more message than receptor oriented . |
| 7 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 8 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 9 | Not in the grocery , I suppose there would be , I mean erm as I say I was never thrilled with the clothing department and when I did get involved with the deals , er I 'm afraid I was a political animal and I would 've have been more interested in the political side . |
| 10 | If you 've read Practical PC from issue 1 , you will know that there have been more graphics standards since 1981 than you can shake a stick at , culminating in today 's VGA standard as the required minimum in a ‘ bog standard ’ machine . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State has pretensions as a political heavyweight , but his performances have been more of a light banterweight . |
| 12 | However , it is fair to say that , compared with 1986 , far more emphasis was placed on the data about publications ( of which a much greater quantity was submitted this time ) , i.e. the judgments have been more ‘ output led ’ . ’ |
| 13 | The opinion of foreigners , wrote an English scholar in 1704 , is " that there have been more shakes and convulsions in the government of England than in that of any other nation . " |
| 14 | There must be some dimensions that have been more thoroughly checked than than er |
| 15 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 16 | Well all the other things have been more urgent , so therefore , I have n't really pursued it to its limits . |