Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration : monster otaku may collect the names of the various actors who wore the rubber suits in an episode of Ultraman ( a trashy humanoid vs monster Japanese TV show , still watched on endless reruns ) and who were conspicuously shorter than in other shows ; ‘ idol ’ otaku may discover what university the father of Seventies teenybop star Hikaru Nishida attended . |
| 2 | Like their counterparts in Gwynedd , part-time farmers were mostly self-employed and in an agriculture-related industry . |
| 3 | These were extremely comfortable and in excellent taste , with beautiful pictures on the walls and rich carpets on the floor . |
| 4 | Despite productivity gains and cost savings , margins were much lower than in 1991 , a year which saw exceptional results in the first quarter because of strong product demand and supply disruptions in the Middle East . |
| 5 | Second , the stimulation thresholds were much higher than in cats and monkeys . |
| 6 | Interestingly , gap junctions in patients with recurrent ulcer were much fewer than in patients with first onset ulcer . |
| 7 | The Leith and Berwick Shipping Company established their headquarters at Leith in 1791 and were so successful that in 1802 , the merchants of Leith organised a direct service of their own under the name of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company . |
| 8 | Yet investors were so shocked that in a day they knocked $13.4 billion off the value of the company . |
| 9 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 10 | Russian representatives sent to them normally had the rank of Great Ambassador ( Velikii Posol ) and their complaints over ceremonial were less intrusive than in other capitals . |
| 11 | Though in Germany traditional cleavages were less obvious than in Italy . |
| 12 | Conditions were perhaps better than in the new urban areas but a good deal worse than in earlier times . |
| 13 | In retrospect , this was a highly creative period , when the politics of urban changes were very much in flux ( McKay and Cox , 1979 ) ; the initiatives were largely ineffective except in as much that the period paved the way for the legislation , and the further , more focused action , that followed . |
| 14 | They were already disadvantaged and in your care . |
| 15 | Prince Albert and Queen Victoria , who was a martyr to seasickness , were also enthusiastic at a time when Anglo-French relations were noticeably warmer than in the previous 50 years . |
| 16 | As overhauled cars returned from Hendon , route boards were fitted just below the saloon windows , where they were more accessible than in the old position on the upper deck . |
| 17 | They found primary school teachers were starting to get grips with the process of assessing pupils and many were more accurate than in the curriculum 's first year . |
| 18 | Apparently a Western Civil Engineer had determined that a most of the branch line stations concerned , the platform clearances were more generous and in any case , the limited motive power requirements for these lines could be covered by inside cylinder tender engines . |
| 19 | The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation . |
| 20 | Although imperial lines , like the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Pacific in Canada or the Uganda and Cape to Cairo railways in Africa , stole the British headlines since they enhanced so many colonial myths , British investment and railway-building were more considerable and in many respects more potent in the Anglo-American ‘ informal Empire ’ of Latin America . |
| 21 | In ulcerative colitis lysozyme mRNA positive cells were more common than in controls as expression was found in 22/27 ( 81% ) specimens , though the difference was not statistically significant ( with Yates correction : p=0.075 , Fisher 's exact test , p=0.07 ) . |
| 22 | He argued that issues of fact were more difficult than in Britain because there was much false testimony and also because ‘ precision of observation with regard to time and distance is quite unknown to a large proportion of witnesses . ’ |
| 23 | By October 1991 gravity had fallen again ( Table 1 ) at summit stations , but values were still higher than in June 1990 . |
| 24 | Real wages were still higher than in most other countries except the USA and Germany . |
| 25 | Levels of dioxins in foods such as meat , fish and oils were slightly higher than in other foods , explained by the fact that dioxins are known to accumulate in fatty tissue . |
| 26 | Considerable attention was given to selecting a range of fabrics and moulding textures that were both easy-on-the-eye and in harmony with each other . |
| 27 | Only when they were both naked and in bed did the girl remember her mother 's final request , to put on a load of washing . |
| 28 | The joy riders were both white and in their teens or early twenties . |
| 29 | Visions of the future were often black and in 1949 Orwell published 1984 . |
| 30 | Batista was evil for Cuba , but in 1944 he permitted free elections and , after the opposition won , the governments were as democratic as in any western country . |