Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ratios of liver to plasma free leucine enrichment at the end of the measurement period were lower than the value of 95% seen in muscle with the same protocol , which compares with 50% to 80% in muscle when [ C ] leucine is infused as a tracer dose . |
| 2 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 3 | In all cases , the reported values of imports into Yugoslavia were lower than the export values reported by the partner countries , despite the fact that the Yugoslav values were c.i.f. and the partner country values were f.o.b . |
| 4 | But in 24 of 40 WFS countries , among women who worked , levels of infant mortality were lower when the mother was employed away from home in anon-farm occupation ( some education and skills ) than when she had not worked at all since marriage . |
| 5 | He opened up his shirt , and showed us his breasts and pointed out that they were bigger than the woman 's . |
| 6 | He watched open-mouthed when his attacker 's black hair shed its pins as she shook with rage , dumbfounded by the eyes which were hotter than the fire by which he sat . |
| 7 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 8 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |
| 9 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 10 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 11 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |
| 12 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |
| 13 | ON SATURDAY MORNING the sun shone , the sea sparkled , colours were sharper and the air seemed fresher . |
| 14 | Both of these groups had non-completion rates which were higher than the average for all students . |
| 15 | ( 1982 ) found that the proportions of bedwetting children were higher when the child showed other behavioural disturbance . |
| 16 | Even though the ranks of labourers were thinner and the level of wealth higher than in the west , tinning was not unknown in eastern parts , though parishes containing tinners differed little from ones that did not : not only were the former only slightly poorer in East hundred , but in West and Trigg they were actually rather better off . |
| 17 | In the mid fifteenth century Sir John Fortescue claimed that the English were richer than the French , that they normally drank ale instead of water and ate all kinds of flesh and fish in abundance ( 10 , pp.86–7 ) . |
| 18 | If the prevailing rate of interest were greater than an individual 's conception of the normal rate , that individual would expect the rate of interest to fall in the near future . |
| 19 | Only when the cameras were rolling was it heart-sinkingly apparent that the physics of inertia , represented by nearly a ton of resting sand , were greater than the physics of motion represented by the four skidding wheels of a Land Rover . |
| 20 | The newer streets were wider than the average of manufacturing towns . |
| 21 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
| 22 | As noted above , Wheeler dated the rampart at Verulamium to Hadrian by deciding that historical grounds were sounder than the evidence of the pottery , which included Antonine pieces . |
| 23 | the farm yard set for Katie but then , cos I have n't got her so much , so I thought we , she , I do n't think she 'd be into police , I thought if I bought police and that was dearer and the amount that I bought for Ben and Charlotte |
| 24 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 25 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 26 | It offered no defence ; and defence was needed , for on the opposite side of the yard a wall ran right up to the house and although it was lower than the roof an agile man might easily scramble from it up on to the roof itself . |
| 27 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 28 | But the level was lower and the rush of the flood less severe than in more restricted surroundings , so that that insurmountable dread of drowning gradually subsided . |
| 29 | The pretreatment serum HBV-DNA level was lower and the aspartate aminotransferase level higher in the response group . |
| 30 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |