Example sentences of "there [verb] been more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 3 | Since then , the burden of scepticism imposed by the three cases had lightened ; and there has been more progress . |
| 4 | There has been more discussion of this phenomenon in relation to gender and race than age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yes , there has been more consistency , a following of the capitalist competitive dream , which has paid good dividends . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There has been more violence and stabbing on the streets since the hours were extended . |
| 10 | During most of the same period , there has been more emigration from the United Kingdom than immigration to it . |
| 11 | After last week 's resignation of GM boss Bob Stempel , there has been more blood letting within the car giant . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 14 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 15 | Mick is convinced that if there had been more staff available the attack might never have happened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's been more bloodshed in the Tower . |
| 26 | Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? , |
| 27 | ‘ There 's been more water used on this floor than we 've had to wash ourselves and our clothes in since we left Liverpool ! ’ |
| 28 | In Tambopata Reserve , an area of ten hectares , in the last ten years , there 's been more birds spotted than in Great Britain since they began keeping records in 1750 . |
| 29 | This is very important and I should imagine there 's been more trouble , probably , with people representing the authority and being rather officious , and this has got no one anywhere . |
| 30 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |