Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was encouraging to find some children apparently receiving a good standard of care : for example , GCSE results were higher than previously reported research had led us to expect ( Fletcher-Campbell and Hall , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Even so , Dr Neil 's modest home was larger and better appointed than most around Vetch Street , and was vast compared with the one stifling room she had briefly occupied in Crow Court . |
| 3 | The path to the next set of ruins was steeper and less travelled than the previous one . |
| 4 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 5 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 6 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 7 | It was worse than ever getting up the companion , much worse than last time . |
| 8 | The excellent weather had brought out more sun-seekers and it was harder than before to find a parking space in Nice . |
| 9 | But the giving had begun , and now it was harder than ever to draw back . |
| 10 | It was harder than ever to face up to its cause . |
| 11 | During 1990 a number of reports indicated that the extent of destruction of the world 's tropical rainforests was greater than previously predicted . |
| 12 | His attitudes are best illustrated by this typical passage from Thucydides ( iv.83 : 424 BC ; the details of the diplomacy are irrelevant ) : Perdikkas ' diplomacy was subtler than just pitting Athens against Sparta and conversely : before the great Peloponnesian War broke out he shrewdly persuaded the Greek cities near Olynthus to coalesce into a federation ; this was an act designed to weaken the greater confederacy of the Delian League , since Athens ' policy ( Thuc. iii . |
| 13 | He was indeed notorious for scheduling numerous rehearsals even for pieces he and the orchestra knew backwards , but his repertoire was wider than commonly imagined , and there is some unsuspected treasure in his discography . |
| 14 | Finally , Delaney 's masked black figure slid down into an area that was wider and better lit . |