Example sentences of "[subord] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their cinema was purer because they were often more fully in charge of their product than were other film-makers working on serious movies , because comedy encouraged a more direct relationship between technique and content , and because the films were made not for any sectional audience but for the mass audience itself . |
| 2 | Elderly women were more likely to find a home with the children than were elderly men , doubtless because they were more useful as babysitters and in doing odd bits of sewing . |
| 3 | Although policies obviously varied according to the occupational structure and size of the company ( Hannah 1986 ) , large organizations were considered more likely to instigate rigid retirement policies than were small ones ( Acton Society Trust 1960 ) . |
| 4 | SERC students were much more likely to be working in the electronic information systems industry ( eg mainframe or micro-computers , word processors etc ) and In software services than were non-SERC students . |
| 5 | The chairmen , jealous of their independence , would have been happy to see less uniformity in practice , but as the requirements of justifying the industry 's policies to Whitehall became more apparent , they accepted ( albeit often reluctantly ) the Central Authority 's point that consistency between Boards was easier to defend than were individual policies which each Board considered right . |
| 6 | However , reform subsequently became discredited , partly as a result of research results which suggested that penal measures intended to reform offenders were no more effective in preventing recidivism than were punitive measures . |
| 7 | Older people were much more impressed by politicians ' energy than were younger people . |
| 8 | Eight accomplices were given lesser prison sentences as were eight others who were condemned in absentia . |
| 9 | Hachani was arrested on Jan. 22 , as were eight journalists of the Al-Khabar newspaper . |
| 10 | The war was , therefore , as much in need of integration into psychoanalytic theory as were masochistic patients . |
| 11 | The first campaigns in Siberia against Kuchum and his khanate were quite blatantly military , as were many actions further east . |
| 12 | Then they were both knocked from their feet , as were many others , by the sudden impact . |
| 13 | By the end of the day almost all universities were occupied or on strike , as were many hospitals . |
| 14 | In the case of Monsieur Blondel , the first two categories may safely be eliminated : had he been a boy , he would have been identified in the livret as a ‘ page ’ , as were other boys who sang in the ballets . |
| 15 | North and South Tees and Hartlepool were looking at getting together in the same way , as were other districts in the North of the region . |
| 16 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
| 17 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 18 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 19 | The mean total scores in the chemotherapy group ( 87.5 ( SD 44 ) ) and in the supportive care group ( 80.2 ( 40 ) ) were similar at baseline , as were mean factor scores . |
| 20 | Measures to strengthen mechanisms to monitor human rights were shelved , as were Danish proposals to abolish the death penalty in the CSCE countries . |
| 21 | I was in the Decoding Room briefly , as were all Hut 6 recruits , but was very glad not to remain there , as the operators were constantly having nervous breakdowns on account of the pace of work and the appalling noise . |
| 22 | Grimm , a born technologist himself — as were all Squats — had pointed out that this eye-screen required psychic input from the operator . |
| 23 | Statistics show that all discharges and disposals of radioactive waste there during 1991 were within the authorised limits set by Government departments — as were all facilities and sites operated by the Company . |
| 24 | A prospective cohort study [ 6 ] carried out on a general population in the west of Scotland found that mortality from all causes was higher in passive smokers than in a control group of nonsmokers , as were all causes of death related to smoking , including mortality from lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease . |
| 25 | " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . " |
| 26 | By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . |
| 27 | Levagh was killed , as were numerous fans . |
| 28 | But from an original total of about one million Austrian soldiers , more than 350,000 were lost , as were 300 guns . |
| 29 | One or two ruined houses could be seen , but the dreariness of much of Cork and Dublin was absent , as were high-rise office blocks . |
| 30 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |