Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Independent Television Commission ruled that the adverts were more tongue-in-cheek rather than sinister or sexist and that , in any , case the Naomi Campbell one had been moved to a post-9pm slot . |
| 2 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 3 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 4 | Higgs believed that the services of a working man 's wife were more valuable economically when they were employed at home than in the labour market . |
| 5 | The man was more cautious now that his friend had been killed , and advanced slowly , brandishing the whip . |
| 6 | For example , pretty well all over the world , the Lower Jurassic terebratulids were represented by the one monotonous , dull-looking genus Lobothyris , though the order was more complex both and afterwards , and several other families somehow survived this temporary eclipse . |
| 7 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 8 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 9 | Walter Sisulu himself , who as secretary-general of the ANC was more senior even than Nelson Mandela when the two were jailed for life in 1964 , served seven jail terms between 1953 and 1963 . |
| 10 | But as far as the Birmingham 18-year-old was concerned , securing his place in Britain 's European championship squad was more important either than the record or his victory in the Mycil ASA national championship final . |
| 11 | Although he was still away fairly often , visiting the mills in Leeds and Bradford which provided the bulk of his income , he was more relaxed now that he felt that he was mastering the intricacies of the various businesses which had been allowed to slip into low productivity during his father 's ill-health . |
| 12 | Once a regression is over , the patient is always able to remember all the details perfectly clearly , and for Carol it was more upsetting afterwards than during the regression itself . |