Example sentences of "was more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " 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 | I was more casually dressed in corduroys and a black leather jacket . |
| 4 | Situationist influence was more menacingly felt in France especially in the universities , although it has to be said that their influence upon the events of May 1968 has been exaggerated . |
| 5 | If there was a middle party at all , it was more plausibly composed of bishops than of barons . |
| 6 | Cain was jealous and upset to think that his brother was more highly favoured with God . |
| 7 | After 1979 the ‘ monetarist ’ theory was more boldly put into practice . |
| 8 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 9 | In the seventeenth century Louis XIV had a sculpture park at Versailles , but it surrounded his palace , and was more formally designed by Le Nôtre , who needed sculptures for the focal points of his avenues . |
| 10 | We think it would help if this objective was more explicitly recognised in CCW 's remit . |
| 11 | The inquisitorial model was more solidly entrenched in Italy than in France . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In assays using L289 and LW60 , immunoreactive material was more commonly found in tumours than control tissue . |
| 14 | But Trawsfynydd was more seriously affected by radiation , which gradually makes welds brittle in the steel pressure vessel holding the reactor 's heart . |