Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 2 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 3 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 4 | A section across the north-eastern side of the town near Gunnings Bridge revealed a clay bank , dated to the late second century , which was earlier than the masonry wall constructed in front of it . |
| 5 | He was superb but she was better and the voice coated the entire stage , the entire production with a quality never before heard in Hochhauser . |
| 6 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 7 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 8 | She was smaller than the Andalusian by a hand , yet her grace , her power were undeniable . |
| 9 | And of one who was wiser than the rest . |
| 10 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 11 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 12 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |
| 13 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 14 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 15 | They had made love that morning and it was better than the day before . |
| 16 | That had been a futile crusade , he knew now , but it was better than the lie Seth offered , the lie that concealed the end of all things . |
| 17 | It was better than an analgesic in her blood . |
| 18 | Yeah but it was bigger than the plate . |
| 19 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 20 | It offered no defence ; and defence was needed , for on the opposite side of the yard a wall ran right up to the house and although it was lower than the roof an agile man might easily scramble from it up on to the roof itself . |
| 21 | It was lonelier than the sea , somehow . |
| 22 | Over the same period , real wages fell by 18.5 per cent ( in 1970 it was estimated by DEPLAN , the government planning agency , that there was 25 per cent excess capacity in the economy ) , the government deficit increased rapidly until in 1973 it was greater than the revenue of the government , the rate of growth of fixed investment fell dramatically and the balance of payments was in deficit , on both currant and capital account , throughout the whole period . |
| 23 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |
| 24 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 25 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 26 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 27 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 28 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 29 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 30 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |