Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodovico gives an external judgement on him that is essentially right : ‘ O thou Othello , that wert once so good , /Fallen in the practice of a damned slave ’ ( 293f . ) . |
| 2 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 3 | Yeah were right then that might push us back towards the Platonic view , that some people are more . |
| 4 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 5 | Relations with the largest non-Arab country in the Middle East , Iran , were rather more complex both before and after the fall of the Shah . |
| 6 | Although the relationships between risk and recognition performance found in Study 2 were rather more complex it is still possible that all or part of the relationship was caused by the explicit focus on risk during the judgment phase . |
| 7 | Subsequent discoveries were rather more stimulating . |
| 8 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 9 | On the whole Karelius thought not ; Lapointe 's attentions were rather more extravagant , and less proprietary , than if he had already achieved his goal . |
| 10 | Only the utensils were rather more ambitious , and the stove larger . |
| 11 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 12 | It was plainly much easier to join the legions of the wicked who were n't fussy and were rather more eager for recruits than the exclusive godfearing . |
| 13 | The cores of the metropolitan regions continued to lose population , though the gains registered by the surrounding counties were rather more subdued . |
| 14 | Women were rather more conspicuous . |
| 15 | The rival Mendelian genetic discoveries were rather more problematic and complicated , although if certain assumptions were made then racial crossing inevitably led to the weakening of the inherited characteristics of the allegedly higher type . |
| 16 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 17 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 18 | polytechnic students were rather more likely to be seeking employment than those studying IT at university ; |
| 19 | CASE students were rather more likely to be in employment than those with ordinary studentships ; |
| 20 | Students who had been in receipt of a CASE award from SERC were rather more likely to be in employment or waiting to start work than those with regular studentships . |
| 21 | As can be seen from the table , the fastest growth of salaried employment was in the ( male-dominated ) managerial grades and the technical and professional grades ( which were rather more open to women ) . |
| 22 | And one which found that its ambitious expansion plans were rather more difficult in practice than on paper . |
| 23 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 24 | As this network of houses attests , the Essenes were rather more numerous than traditional accounts suggest . |
| 25 | ‘ A recent survey showed that attitudes towards tourism were rather more positive than negative , he said . |
| 26 | Especially in the Belfast area , people would work for him , not because he was an evangelical who denounced apostasy and promoted sabbatarianism and temperance , but because he was a strong loyalist who articulated their suspicions that the leaders of the Unionist Party — ‘ the fur coat brigade ’ — were rather more interested in looking after themselves than they were in protecting working-class Protestants . |
| 27 | erm And I think really most citizens , and I daresay , a number of the scholars in the university too , were rather more interested in keeping their heads down , and erm just trying to keep out of it , and where the citizens were concerned , keeping on earning a living . |
| 28 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 29 | We did quite well with routine seizures in the anchorages of the Bristol Channel and even better in the more sheltered confines of the South Wales ports , which in those days were rather more busy than they are today . |
| 30 | Police estimates were rather more conservative , suggesting about 7,000 prostitutes in London in the 1850s , with a national total of something under 30,000 . |