Example sentences of "have be a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 2 | Toby continued : ‘ As for this Harley business , we now know that there has been a closer relationship between Martinez and Jefferson over the years than the normal one of agent and manufacturer . |
| 3 | This probably underestimates the extent to which there has been a wider shift away from direct council provision , however . |
| 4 | However , as educational standards have improved , there has been a greater awareness of mental handicap in children , and improved medical skills have led to more research into its causes . |
| 5 | It has proved impossible to determine whether the French LFA farmer is better off financially having loans compared with his UK counterpart receiving a capital grant ; the indications are that the UK system has been a greater incentive , especially towards land improvements . |
| 6 | And it must be said that while there has been a greater interest in ferreting and in the shooting side of rabbiting the netting interest has declined . |
| 7 | There has been a greater emphasis on cosmic perspectives generally — such as the ‘ panspermia ’ theory ( the notion that the ‘ seeds ’ of organic life drifted to Earth from outer space ) — to explain both the origin of life on Earth and the frequent recurrence of plagues and viruses which have taken their toll of life in the past . |
| 8 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 9 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 10 | In recent years especially , it would appear that there has been a greater confidence among policy makers and market participants concerning the ability of market forces to secure many of the aforementioned policy objectives and to challenge the appropriateness of certain forms of pre-existing financial sector regulatory measures . |
| 11 | Side-by-side with this has been a greater emphasis on the link with organizational behaviour and decision analysis , with a growing recognition of the importance of political processes within firms , quite apart from those around them . |
| 12 | There has been a greater social and economic input in structure plans than in development plans , but there is little agreement as to the scope of social planning ( R. Williams 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Turning from the functions of legislating and authorizing both expenditure and taxation to the other traditional function of pressing the government , the procedures involved have also undergone change but there has been a greater effort made to keep this weapon sharpened and up to the armour it has to pierce . |
| 14 | That is one more reason why , across the south , there has been a greater swing to Labour than in any other region and why , I must point out to the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , who seeks to speak for my native county , we look forward to a smashing victory in his constituency at the next election . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin has proved to the hilt that there has been a greater , easier and more eager resort to the guillotine than at any time in English parliamentary history . |
| 16 | The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus . |
| 17 | We have revised our premium rates because of the continuing increase in the cost of theft claims — 1983 saw a 24% increase over 1982 and there has been a further 12% increase in the first half of 1984 . |
| 18 | Since then there has been a further , more extreme freshening ( and cooling ) on this density surface . |
| 19 | There has been a further growth in the importance of information technology , to the state where entire curricula have been revised on the assumption that students coming up from school can programme quite complex computers within their first year . |
| 20 | Its initial impression , according to one of its members , Scott Fowler , was that there has been a further improvement . |
| 21 | Rather sadly , Mr Scargill 's reward for his caring contribution has been a further 837 pit closures and lifelong castigation by a large section of the national media . |
| 22 | Of particular note has been a further reduction in the amount of total wastes produced and the maintaining of energy efficiency across the Group . |
| 23 | The original 1930s plant was replaced by an explosion-proof variant some five years ago : Winnington has been a quieter , if less spectacular , place since then . |
| 24 | First , there has been a harder look at the components of the nursing process to assess whether nursing skills were appropriately used and related to the needs of patients or whether they followed old-established but unvalidated local custom and practice . |
| 25 | This means that in terms of proportions of total employment there has been a faster shift away from manufacturing in the regions of the north than in the regions of the south ; there has been faster deindustrialization , measured in these terms also , in north than south . |
| 26 | The recent single , Love You All My Lifetime , should have been a bigger hit and shows that Chaka can still sound as if she 's bursting with all the joys of spring . |
| 27 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 28 | As an example to the world that the young were powerful , that money was not the be-all and end-all , Apple could hardly have been a bigger failure . |
| 29 | One of the features of the years 765–85 may have been a closer involvement on Offa 's part with the kingdom of the East Angles . |
| 30 | It could not have been a bleaker one . |