Example sentences of "was more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 2 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 3 | After 1979 the ‘ monetarist ’ theory was more boldly put into practice . |
| 4 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 5 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 6 | But Trawsfynydd was more seriously affected by radiation , which gradually makes welds brittle in the steel pressure vessel holding the reactor 's heart . |