Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 2 | Although lack of staff was mentioned often , lack of direct funding was mentioned much less so : in fact more libraries actually said that resources were adequate than specifically noted otherwise : |
| 3 | They were paler than ever , almost white , and she shook her head slowly . |
| 4 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 5 | Here the seas were steeper than ever . |
| 6 | He was glad that there were fewer than before . |
| 7 | When we were younger than now , |
| 8 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 9 | It was a calculated guess but sooner or later he expected to hit lucky , and here on the fringe of a large private estate the chances were better than anywhere . |
| 10 | TODAY 's exclusive revelations that the couple were not sharing one bedroom at the city 's Hyatt Hotel came as palace aides tried to insist Charles and Diana were closer than ever . |
| 11 | Among the indicators is the Treasury 's monthly monetary report which said yesterday that there were many encouraging trends in the economy , but in some cases figures were weaker than before . |
| 12 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 13 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 14 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
| 15 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 16 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 17 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 18 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 19 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 20 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 21 | Losses on Commercial lines for the year were more than double 1991 , reflecting the difficult market conditions . |
| 22 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 23 | Mr Major , he said , wanted to use the move towards the year 2000 to ‘ celebrate our civilisation and leave some mark that we were more than just , hopefully , a successful entrepreneurial society . ’ |
| 24 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 25 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 26 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 27 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 29 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 30 | It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire . |