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Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1	When , as here , figures are standardized between different countries , the UK exhibited the worst overall unemployment rates in 1982 , but France and Italy were latterly suffering worse unemployment .
2	The man 's words were somehow given greater importance by his unexpected death , and suddenly Clare felt ashamed .
3	Fabia returned to her room , but her faint hopes were already getting fainter .
4	Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts .
5	In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole .
6	In the immediate post-conciliar phase ( 1966 – 7 ) , Rome remained not far off the avant-garde of progress , but once the first round of directives was complete and the curia firmly back in control , the conservative tendency regained the upper hand in the centre while progressive tendencies were still growing stronger in many a periphery .
7	They were also offering lower grants for Premia 1 and 2 .
8	Foreign offices were also growing larger , though , like the diplomatic services they controlled , only gradually .
9	In a general sense the evidence examined in Chapter 2 ( that in many parts of the world , soil erosion , floods , soil degradation and deforestation were probably getting worse ) could be used in a crude sense to show that conservation policies have not succeeded .
10	The Food Smell was still above it , and those pangs which had been temporarily assuaged by what it had found in the wall below , were now growing ever-sharper once more .
11	The only methods available to do this were either to find cheaper sources of raw materials , squeeze labour 's wages or increase the technological composition of the productive process .
12	Things were steadily getting worse , until the following winter would become known as ‘ the turnip winter ’ .
13	Paisley 's religious appeal was based on the claim that orthodox Protestant beliefs were being ‘ downgraded ’ and that , at the same time , liberal Protestants were actively seeking greater harmony with other apostate denominations , in particular the old enemy of Rome .
14	On the contrary , he was slowly drifting higher , and sternwards .
15	Shoe making was progressively employing cheaper labour around and in Northampton , while in the 1780s calico printing moved north to Lancashire .
16	But as Michele had prophesied , it was already getting cooler , and Luce was glad of her light coat .
17	Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior .
18	Mike Bews was just getting better and better and is beginning to look like the making of yet another pro reared in Farnborough .
19	‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’
20	It was forever seeking longer credit from its suppliers , it was never able to be paid quickly enough by its customers and did not boast adequate assets to borrow permanent capital .
21	He was the only Ryan to wear glasses , which he was forever pushing higher on his nose , the thick lenses giving him an owlish appearance .
22	This was usually negotiating better discounts , in some of our production centres reducing the web width , which of course saves newsprint and in many areas er , in the regional newspapers reducing the distribution of our freeze in areas where we thought it er , it would n't affect , it would n't have affected the performance of the title .
23	MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes .
24	East Germany was yesterday preparing further measures to counter a drastic fall in the value of its currency .
25	One source on the BBC 's Spanish set said : ‘ It was always envisaged harder stories would be introduced when people got to know the characters well enough . ’
26	Mrs Maggie Bosanquet , founder of Darlington Environmental Watch , said Darlington was gradually getting greener thanks to organisations like the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers .
27	The intention was clearly to deter younger fans from getting into what were viewed as ‘ trouble spots ’ and , at the same time , to improve the total gate money a little .
28	He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket .
29	Although the duke was later to acquire further interests of his own in Wales he never resumed the position of his brother 's leading representative there .
30	Although the duke was later to acquire further interests of his own in Wales he never resumed the position of his brother 's leading representative there .