Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 2 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 3 | In the first place , there is a discrepancy in the experimental results — Reiss and Wagner ( 1972 ) found that a novel stimulus was more effective than a familiar one in disrupting the CR whereas Kremer ( 1972 ) found the opposite . |
| 4 | Anyway , living in a city was more expensive than a rural existence would be , he reasoned , thus rationalising his longing to return home . |
| 5 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 6 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 7 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
| 8 | I was more baffled than a pregnant postulant in a eunuch 's prefab . |
| 9 | One human life was more important than a whole herd of pigs . |
| 10 | People agreed with Lord Henry , who once said , in his amusing way , that a good dinner was more important than a good life . |
| 11 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 12 | Business was more rewarding than a relationship . |