Example sentences of "[subord] [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 2 | Statutory duties now cover a wider range of special needs groups than was formerly the case . |
| 3 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 4 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 5 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 6 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 7 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 8 | Surprised by Joy limited by the necessarily artificial conventions of autobiography , gives an impression that the development of Lewis 's religious opinions was much more cut and dried than was really the case . |
| 9 | The concern about declining councillor calibre embodies a bitter lament that a variety of changes have conspired to result in a situation in which there is now a less close and direct relationship between economic power , social status , and the political control of local government than was once the case in the Victorian age when local government enjoyed the leadership of businessmen and local notables . |
| 10 | Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ? |
| 11 | On the whole , despite sporadic resistance , the hands of public censorship and outrage lie more lightly on the author and playwright , the cinema and the television director than was once the case . |
| 12 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
| 13 | So we wanted the CPRS to be less of a Cabinet-wide body more serving the Prime Minister than was actually the case . |
| 14 | Yet each development officer thought she would end up with far more paid support workers than was actually the case ; one surmise , for example , was that there might come a time when they had 30 clients on their case load each with two paid carers . |
| 15 | This , therefore , showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case . |
| 16 | and I understand that because I , I 'd probably feel like that , I 'd sooner invest in bricks and mortar even if were only a little end-terrace house |
| 17 | On this last occasion , according to Chamberlain , who was also present , Baldwin ‘ asked no intelligent question , made no helpful suggestion ’ , which Chamberlain attributed to his desire ‘ to be gone before he was ’ drawn into something ’ ‘ Whether or not this was a correct explanation of his reticence , if was certainly the case that Baldwin was quickly ‘ gone ’ . |
| 18 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 19 | Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries . |
| 20 | The same argument could be used to suppress the reporting of all crime that involved human behaviour ( as was frequently the case in the old Soviet empire ) . |
| 21 | Since this is part of the preliminaries , the page , as was frequently the custom , was signed with an asterisk instead of a letter , the letters beginning with the main text . |
| 22 | AS WAS surely the intention from the outset , Fabulous seem a strange choice of support for The Farm — glamour , rebellion and superficiality supports worthy but dull , genuine , salt of the earth brickie pop . |
| 23 | Several concessions have also been made in relation to capital gains tax : the amount of gain allowed tax free has risen from £1,000 a year to £5,000 a year and this allowance now applies to all gains , not just small gains as was formerly the case . |
| 24 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 25 | In Malaysia , Sabah and Sarawak were expected to have almost no virgin forest left by the end of the century , as was already the case in Thailand and the Philippines . |
| 26 | The first volume of her poems was published by subscription ( the proposals for which were drawn up by Mr. Garrick ) under the patronage of several persons of rank and taste , in 1748 ; as was also the second volume , of which the late Mr. Hawkins Browne was the editor in 175 … , both of them after her death , which happened prematurely by the meazles , at the age of 24 . |
| 27 | The pound would be allowed to fluctuate initially by up to 6 per cent on either side of its central parity rate ( as was also the case for the Spanish peseta ) , but would move into the narrower 2.25 per cent fluctuation band as soon as possible . |
| 28 | ( Indeed , old and new models may be in production simultaneously , as was briefly the case with the T-54 , T-62 and T-72 ) . |
| 29 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 30 | You had to look hard to find a car that did n't boast an £80,000-plus price sticker , plus a 200mph-plus top speed or , as was usually the case , both . |