Example sentences of "it was [adj -er] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 2 | There was no sense in inviting battle from a much stronger enemy ; it was better to delay any fighting in the hope of more allied troops arriving to even the numbers who faced each other south of Frasnes . |
| 3 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 4 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 5 | She also said that it was better to eat left-over meat in Lent than go to market and incur debt through buying fish ( 241 , p.128 ) . |
| 6 | John Williams ( Lab ) , council leader , said it was better to accept these plans than risk losing the chance to have the site improved . |
| 7 | Surely it was better to follow any occupation , even a baker 's , a barber 's , a librarian 's , than commit the cardinal sin — for a Dutchman — . |
| 8 | For instance , even today they both use the same gauge guitar strings because in the old days it was cheaper to buy one gauge in bulk . |
| 9 | No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in |
| 10 | The Hayward 's lower galleries are mainly devoted to personal contributions , to semi-abstract painting ( and the absence of sculpture in this section suggests that it was easier to join international art by painting rather than sculpting ) . |
| 11 | After that , it was easier to see that Strabo himself largely depended on posidonius and that Caesar , too , must have used Posidoriius in the ethnographic excursuses of the Bellurn Gallicurn . |
| 12 | The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one . |