Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 2 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 3 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 4 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 5 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 6 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 7 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 8 | Chief Inspector was slightly more than just a copper , Meredith thought wryly , amused at his apparent self abasement . |
| 9 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |
| 10 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |