Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem stemmed from the fact that there was an asymmetry of regulation in that recognised banks were less strictly regulated than licensed deposit takers . |
| 2 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 3 | However , Ordovician strata of the Tywi anticline were less deeply buried than adjacent Silurian strata , suggesting that this part of the Welsh basin is a basement high characterised by low subsidence rates . |
| 4 | Thus , at least at this level , the English subjects were already well established as minimal testing devices for entry into state , semi-state , and autonomous professional organizations . |
| 5 | In an even more secular society , and one in which the signals of ‘ drama ’ ( meaning now not ‘ presence ’ but ‘ representation ’ ) were more generally organized and familiar , just these once ‘ normal ’ but then prohibited dramatic presentations have reappeared . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , some wooded areas were more intensively settled and used as time went on . |
| 7 | The two regions were more industrially developed and russified and showed little support for the IRP . |
| 8 | Their buildings were more finely finished and decorated and were certainly more beautiful . |
| 9 | Such an analysis paralleled the belief that middle class women were more highly evolved and that working class women were nearer ‘ nature ’ and the lower animal passions and behaviour . |
| 10 | Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be . |
| 11 | On the basis of this analysis , a child with severe learning difficulties might have both delayed language , in that she would be functioning at a level below that normally expected for children of her age , and a deficit if her language skills were more severely affected than other areas . |
| 12 | Although by 1931 some 5,543,700 Poles were still officially classed as illiterate , the level of illiteracy in Poland compared very favourably with Italy ( 27 per cent ) and Spain ( 47.5 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Dr Snell has recently suggested that on the evidence of apprenticeship indentures women and girls were bound to a range of occupations in the early and middle years of the eighteenth century from which they were later progressively excluded as capitalistic developments took more work from the home and as population growth accelerated to flood the labour market . |
| 14 | Between the wars , there was little change but county club finances were often sorely stretched and some of the less popular counties had to rely on local patrons for help . |
| 15 | They were all so done up and seemed so aloof. , Yet , in fact they were really easy going and fine to get along with |
| 16 | Again all words in the sentences occurred in the RM1 lexicon and words in the collocations list were as heavily represented as possible . ’ |
| 17 | These buildings were invariably well heated and conducive to ‘ nodding off at the end of a long day . |
| 18 | Some authorities were better organized in relation to UDG submissions , and some areas were simply not regarded as attractive to the market — even when UDG was taken into account . |
| 19 | The caecum and colon were then carefully dissected and divested of fat , rinsed in isotonic saline , blotted , and weighed . |
| 20 | The plates were then rapidly washed and 10 ml fresh αMEM with 1% FBS was added to each plate . |
| 21 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 22 | The consequence of this has been the incorporation into the political sphere of issues which were previously barely regarded as political at all . |
| 23 | Those countries which were either highly centralized or decentralized in their wage bargaining system consistently out-performed those in the intermediate category . |
| 24 | Despite all the restrictions put on private food production and the penalties for hoarding or stealing state or co-operative products , the peasants were markedly better fed than most people in towns . |
| 25 | The nuclear families were instead relatively enclosed and inward-looking . |
| 26 | Landau and Nathan ( 1983 ) found that in the juvenile bureau of six London boroughs white juveniles were significantly more cautioned than black , including juveniles with previous convictions . |
| 27 | Inside , the giant scoreboard had billed the match as Berwick v Allo ( as in ‘ Allo ) and was little further electrified until former Darlington striker Kevin Todd ( ‘ he 's had a rotten season ’ Beveridge said ) had a goal disallowed for a bit of slap and tickle in the great puddin' of a penalty area . |
| 28 | The DES was somewhat curtly informed that this was a matter for the LEAs concerned . |
| 29 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 30 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |