Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman in two who worked out said they were more easily aroused after sport , SHE magazine reports — and men said sex was more frequent and satisfying for them , too . |
| 2 | New teaching methods were more easily discussed in business studies or applied social science than in an area like engineering with an established body of knowledge and longer traditions of teaching . |
| 3 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 4 | Emigrant workers , regardless of ethnicity , were more often accused of property crime , while some localities near the south-western coast produced a large proportion of violent offenders . |
| 5 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 6 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 7 | After 1979 the ‘ monetarist ’ theory was more boldly put into practice . |
| 8 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 9 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 10 | But Trawsfynydd was more seriously affected by radiation , which gradually makes welds brittle in the steel pressure vessel holding the reactor 's heart . |