Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 2 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 3 | Although she was in the front row and next to the window , leg room was cramped and there was no champagne on ice on the eight-hour flight . |
| 4 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 5 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 6 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 7 | First , as a result of the negotiations by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor , there is considerably more flexibility now than there was with the 3 per cent . |
| 8 | than there was in the first place . |
| 9 | There 's a much greater sense here of tolerating plurality and diversity than there was in the English departments , although obviously there is conflict amongst staff about the extent to which such plurality can be tolerated . |
| 10 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
| 11 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 12 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 13 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 14 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 15 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 16 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 17 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 18 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 19 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 20 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 22 | The problem of servicing debt is already , in practice , less severe than it was in the early and mid 1980s . |
| 23 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 24 | Obviously , you are expected to ‘ use ’ them somehow , but what you are supposed to do with them is rather less obvious than it was in the Hardy Hall case . |
| 25 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 26 | Student influence seems , by contrast , rather weaker than it was in the 1960s and 1970s , when more radical questions were asked , leading to the inclusion in some cases of courses to do with the social and environmental impacts of professional activities . |
| 27 | This is nearer realization than it was in the late 1980s if only because the practice and principles of GRIDS , together with further movements towards total self-evaluation , have removed some of each party 's defensiveness . |
| 28 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 29 | The relevance of this goal is no less than it was in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 30 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |