Example sentences of "was more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine thousand years ago they were about as warm as today , though there was more ice present . |
| 2 | It was hit and miss , and it was more miss than hit . |
| 3 | Understanding men and women and relationships as I do , I thought there was more chance of it not working out and the rest is what one might call one 's intuition . |
| 4 | Leaping into action , Labour leader John Smith said there was more chance of ski-jump flop Eddie winning a gold medal at the next winter Olympics . |
| 5 | ‘ The 1979 Canal Treaties were not in jeopardy , there was no sign of danger to the Canal , and the war declaration by Noriega was more rhetoric than reality , ’ commented Mr Larry Birns , director of the respected regional think-tank , the Council for Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 6 | At this there was more uproar and , encouraged by their chief , a posse of seven Scottish YCs in kilts paraded in front of the platform singing ‘ Rule Britannia ’ to the uncertain sound of Robertson 's trumpet . |
| 7 | But I think got worse when Valley was built cos you know there was more families moving from different parts of t to move you know live at Valley . |
| 8 | I must admit there was more enjoyment than effort in making this easy , yet delicious meal . |
| 9 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , but , I think that was more shock than anything |
| 11 | A N'pani of Alexei 's household had designed the garden , and as a result there was more art than agriculture to its appearance . |
| 12 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 13 | Course he , he used to know a lot of them round there , because there was more houses at the top of than there is now and all round there you know . |
| 14 | While al-Amarah remained an exceptionally lively point in the central sector , as the 1980s advanced there was more activity up towards the northern end , near Mehran . |
| 15 | Certainly there was more choice for ‘ consumers ’ ; this itself was a reformation in ideology . |
| 16 | I could see there was more work looming . |
| 17 | The national policy consensus excluded the trade unions ; the alliance of government agencies and certain companies was more activist than in Britain ; planning goals were pursued with a battery of penalty and incentive powers . |
| 18 | but the other one , they did this vi video diary that they each spoke on and he was getting more upset , the more weight she lost he was more discontent in saying that |
| 19 | There was more firing and I could hear chips of wood being torn from the trees . |
| 20 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 21 | There was more stuff about ‘ teething troubles ’ , whatever that meant , but Grimma did n't bother to read it . |
| 22 | On the other hand , more information did become available and there was more scrutiny of executive action . |
| 23 | The German officer , who thought that this was more abuse , shouted back . |
| 24 | The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and |
| 25 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 26 | Later , in the sixteenth century , some of the bastides allied themselves with the Huguenot cause against the Catholics , and there was more bloodshed . ’ |
| 27 | Works on comparative anatomy continued this tradition , though by the nineteenth century there was more caution about using mankind . |
| 28 | But the league made little impact and there was more success with the Derry Unemployed Action Committee ( DUAC ) which involved NILP leftists as well as republicans . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , there was more gloom for the Premier yesterday . |
| 30 | There was more gloom as house prices slumped by 2.7 per cent in last month . |