Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 2 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 3 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 4 | There are fifty five different numbers at the moment on the football pools , and if people made an investigation of the frequency with which certain matches were selected , then they 'd find that certain numbers were selected far more frequently and others selected far less frequently than other numbers . |
| 5 | Moveables were taxed relatively more lightly than before , land more heavily . |
| 6 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 7 | Conscious of the fact that his palms were sweating even more markedly than usual , Pogo hurriedly pulled on his white gloves and led his impatient partner on to the floor . |
| 8 | Since French prices were rising considerably more rapidly than those in the United States and Germany , it also implied a loss of competitiveness . |
| 9 | She raised her left hand to stroke his scarred cheek and on impulse kissed it again , saying , ‘ Oh , my love , my poor love ; you were hurt even more badly than I was . ’ |
| 10 | But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze . |
| 11 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 12 | The pipeline , was built far more quickly than the trans-Alaskan pipeline , largely because of the 2,200 separate state and federal permits and construction sanctions needed by the oil companies involved in the US project . |
| 13 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 14 | Two-Dogs claimed his time was almost up , and was drinking even more heavily than usual . |
| 15 | The spread of Communist ideas and influence among the middle classes and among the steadily expanding constituency Labour parties , was achieved much more rapidly than in the past . |
| 16 | Everything was working out more easily than she could have hoped . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought Bluebeard was married rather more often than usual , ’ she said tartly , something constricting in the region of her heart . |