Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But all right , ’ he said sociably , ‘ were there days at the orphanage that were better than others ? ’ |
| 2 | In the experiment it was found that all three methods produced results that were better than random selection — but the domain specific methods were far superior to the domain-general method ( DG was 27% better than chance , the DS methods both roughly twice as good as chance ) . |
| 3 | His eyes had popped , but the sensors inside his skull fed him heat patterns that were clearer than any visual input . |
| 4 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 5 | He said he 'd stood up on waves that were bigger and elected not to go : ‘ When you know you have that much whitewater to contend with and a rock-lined bay in front of you , it 's a deterrent . ’ |
| 6 | In fact the relationship was negatively allometric ; bigger animals had home-ranges that were bigger in absolute terms from those of smaller animals , but smaller relative to their body size . |
| 7 | The lights that were fainter were memory buoys . |
| 8 | Now Middlesex must decide if the players showed one set of studs to the referee before playing in another set that were longer and more dangerous . |
| 9 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 10 | Pay packets depended more on bonuses that were tougher to win . |
| 11 | An egalitarian mixture of social realism and modernism , the Festival conjured up a real sense of design direction : it was all about building a better environment for everyone , with stylish cars , labour-saving gadgets and buildings that were easier to inhabit . |
| 12 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 13 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 14 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
| 15 | A best guess would be around 6,600 — a figure , they pointed out , that was higher than the EPA 's estimate for 1986 , let alone for 1992 . |
| 16 | Influenced by Chicago house as well as the unlikely European sounds of Kraftwerk , Yello and Depeche Mode — Saunderson , May ( who uses the names Mayday and Rythim Is Rythim ) and the original techno-master Atkins ( Cybortron and Model 500 ) , created a music that was sparser , leaner and harsher than house . |
| 17 | ‘ To play this game fairly , ’ I said , ‘ you would need to have a hand that was bigger than your mouth . ’ |
| 18 | It made Bella shriek and wave her arms about and it set Joe drumming his fingers on the table with that quiet disapproval that was worse than anything Bella could do . |
| 19 | She came to see me , with a lack of spoken reproach that was worse to me than o Pappous 's anger . |
| 20 | It grew so loud that the shed shook , and then it stopped suddenly , leaving a nasty kind of silence that was worse than the noise . |
| 21 | If I had an area that was wider than the height , I sometimes made a double head , with three noses . |
| 22 | Finally , Delaney 's masked black figure slid down into an area that was wider and better lit . |
| 23 | There was also a presumption that a notice would not be issued that was wider than necessary or involved excessive compliance costs . |
| 24 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 25 | Moreover , each quantum had a certain amount of energy that was greater the higher the frequency of the waves , so at a high enough frequency the emission of a single quantum would require more energy than was available . |
| 26 | Boo was only a rather slow boy who got into mischief and had a punishment inflicted on him that was greater than the crime by his narrowminded father . |
| 27 | It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours . |
| 28 | George pulled her towards a large hole that was blacker than the night around it . |
| 29 | A floor gargoyle exhaled air that was cooler , yet the refrigeration unit was thumping in distress . |
| 30 | And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’ |