Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed rustic and backward and yet they were friendlier and easier for him to understand than the humans . |
| 2 | Roland 's xeroxes were cleaner and clearer than the faded coppery-grey script of the originals ; indeed the copy-ink had a black and gleaming freshness , the machine 's rollers must have been newly inked . |
| 3 | Her three rotor towers were taller and wider but very similar in construction and weight to those of the Buckau , thanks to the use of a new light aluminium alloy for their mantles . |
| 4 | These pigs were taller and heavier , with a saddle of black colouring thrown across their backs and big metal clips attached to their ears . |
| 5 | They were taller and stronger than me , and they were loved . |
| 6 | We saw few people , and when they appeared they were taller and darker than Egyptians to the north . |
| 7 | The noises had become louder , the lights were brighter and sharper , and the people around him seemed to be turning into over-expansive parodies of their true selves . |
| 8 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 9 | Some of them were younger and jollier than their predecessors , and enjoyed a little dancing to the music of a gramophone . |
| 10 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 11 | The skis were better and faster , too . |
| 12 | Following the subject breakdown into the seven categories suggested by the SERC IT Directorate , it is possible to see whether employment chances were better or worse than the average , depending on IT course content . |
| 13 | They were thicker and smaller you see . |
| 14 | The secret police of your childhood were older and wiser than you , bigger |
| 15 | They had many more boats , most of which were smaller and faster than our own and , generally speaking , carried out shorter patrols , returning to a fixed base where the crews tended to live ashore . |
| 16 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 17 | Of all the obstacles put in the way of young refugees entering the learned professions , none were higher and bulkier than those erected by the medical fraternity . |
| 18 | What was therefore happening during the period reviewed by Bacon and Eltis was that British capital was being invested either abroad , where profit returns were higher and easier to achieve , or in finance companies in this country where again profitability was higher than in industry . |
| 19 | The youngest woman entering the study was 20 years old , and 10 were 40 or older . |
| 20 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 21 | We spent a lot of time outside on exercises , we had runs every morning in full combat kit which were longer and harder than the ones at Orange , we dug trenches , learnt how to camouflage ourselves and how to move across country at night . |
| 22 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 23 | This grew with the realization that deep chemical weathering would be the norm in many tropical areas and that many temperate areas included tor-like residuals which were a remnant from times when climatic conditions were warmer and wetter . |
| 24 | Thousands rallied to the call , as the picture shows , and many were sadder and wiser after the event . |
| 25 | Now they were thinner and leaner and much dirtier and all they were taking with them were the torn and grubby clothes they stood up in . |
| 26 | The clinical grading structure could give rise to some difficulties in deciding whether previous posts held were equivalent or higher than the new grades and it would be advisable to clarify your position at interview . |
| 27 | And they always did , no matter how rich they were ; no matter , come to that , if the wives were richer or bigger than the husbands . |
| 28 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 29 | The earliest known herbivorous vertebrate is the late Carboniferous pelycosaur , Edaphosaurus : it and other early herbivores were large ( 24m in length ) and it has been suggested that size was an adaptation to low-energy food , as their ancestors were carnivorous and smaller . |
| 30 | Why choose one of the was it cos they were suitable or cheaper ? |