Example sentences of "it was a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 2 | It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them . |
| 3 | It was a softer cloth , better fitting . |
| 4 | It was a greater task to be as he was in his given circumstances than among God-fearing people : in that fact itself there was an urge towards determination , and a hint of comfort . |
| 5 | He said little more to the Cabinet than that ‘ it was a worse situation in the House of Commons than he had ever known ’ , but he got Chamberlain ( a great man for doing the dirty jobs ) to see Hoare again and present hint with an impossible ultimatum . |
| 6 | It was a better night for Scotland in the B division of the men 's championship , in Basle , Switzerland , where Menzieshill scored a 4-3 victory over Slavia Prague . |
| 7 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 8 | It lasted longer and it was a better hit as well . |
| 9 | However specialist nurses were provided in certain districts and there was a feeling that it was a better system . |
| 10 | It was quite a good performance , I it looked like being a goal-less draw at the end , but really it was a better performance I thought , than against Milwall . |
| 11 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 12 | And it was a better class of oak all through . |
| 13 | And erm it was a better class altogether of ash . |
| 14 | In 1954 savings were sunk in buying a " room and kitchen with scullery " ; it had no bathroom , but there was an inside toilet , and it was a better area . |
| 15 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 16 | In some respects , it was a safer bet . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , there you — ’ one of them began , before he took in the fact that it was a stranger standing in front of him , rather than the third scientist . |
| 18 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 19 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 20 | It was a bigger boy . |
| 21 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 22 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 23 | Pammy , then , there 's a picture of her tractor , is there , no I have n't got one here , yes , is that the Alice Charmers , well , do you know the Alice Charmers tractor , the two front wheel close together , it 's got big wheels the long one , two little , well it was a bigger tractor than that but they were closer together Well , she was driving up this steep bank , I think that was how much the , and who knows so steep that only two roads were up near here , she could have gone over , it was terrible , and of course that thing , erm where is it ? |
| 24 | Oh it was a bigger house , better house altogether ah that was a very nice house , a very nice garden as well . |
| 25 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 26 | In a way , he thought , it was a cleaner life being a battery chicken than a free-range , corn-fed chicken . |
| 27 | It was a quieter dawn in Leominster , with morris men marking the pagan first day of summer on a hill outside the town . |
| 28 | It was a further hour before he found Schmidt . |
| 29 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 30 | It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage . |