Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs duties on imported alcohol were producing more than 60 per cent of a total duty yield of £7 million in 1800 , although this was in part because Pitt 's reforms had cut the duties on tea . |
| 2 | But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents . |
| 3 | Thus Japanese companies in the early sixties were financing more than 40 per cent of their investment by tapping external sources of funds ; French firms borrowed one-third of the funds they needed and German firms probably did the same . |
| 4 | ( There are only 169 UK authorities , so clearly some were using more than one approval service . ) |
| 5 | From the ivory tower of a teaching hospital this may seem unfair , but Dixon may be surprised to learn that of the 60 or so practitioners participating in the Gloucester Independent Dentists ' Group , fewer than half were drawing more than 80% of the government 's target net income before the reduction in fees , which , incidentally , was 17.5% gross rather than the publicised 7.5% . |
| 6 | Imported food was needed not only because populations were growing , but because some Europeans were eating more and better . |
| 7 | For him spiritual and political ideas were becoming more and more inseparable in his concern with ‘ culture ’ as a whole . |
| 8 | Yet these non-Conservative elements — the Liberal Nationals and National Labour — were becoming more and more adjuncts to the Conservative party , and they owed their seats entirely to the willingness of the Conservatives not to oppose them in the constituencies . |
| 9 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 10 | By ten past nine , both boys were becoming more and more convinced that no one was going to arrive . |
| 11 | They were ‘ the centre of gravity of the whole biological system ’ , while men were becoming more and more superfluous . |
| 12 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 13 | The Maritza rehearsals were becoming more and more disastrous . |
| 14 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 15 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 16 | Such craftsmen were considered more than mere artisans , and their products , especially set in seal rings , were highly esteemed . |
| 17 | ( Piaget 's most influential books were written more than 50 years ago . ) |
| 18 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 19 | The whole bunch were looking more and more like liabilities . |
| 20 | Some signalling in the south is still controlled from signalboxes which were built more than 100 years ago . |
| 21 | The experiments described above were performed more than once , with minor variations in the procedure adopted . |
| 22 | As the 1980s progressed , seasoned travellers observed that the offerings of railway stations , airports and motorway service areas were growing more and more alike . |
| 23 | The pavement was still below my feet , which were moving more or less as they were supposed to . |
| 24 | Furthermore , only 20 per cent of the women were getting more than £5 per week in non-state pension income , as compared with 50 per cent of the men . |
| 25 | Only 7 per cent of the women were getting more than £25 , though 26 per cent of the men were reaching this level . |
| 26 | His punishments were getting more and more frequent . |
| 27 | Nearly a half of all 3-year-old boys were bedwetting more than twice a week while 30 per cent of girls were . |
| 28 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 29 | By March , with the Germans driving forwards toward Paris from the north-east and renewed heavy air-raids , Parisians were spending more and more time in cellars and shelters . |
| 30 | Christine was bruised , but her feelings were hurt more than her body . |