Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He achieved for the COS , however , a degree of influence in government circles which was rather greater than the Society 's contribution to philanthropy . |
| 2 | I was rather sorry when the All Clear went . ’ |
| 3 | By 1982 , the state 's accumulated ‘ debt ’ with RENFE was rather more than the annual operating revenue ( RENFE 1984a : 45 ) . |
| 4 | And that was rather less than the effect these fashion fancies had on Third World local economies . |
| 5 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 6 | Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys ' Schweppes debut . |
| 7 | On his return , Keller was Swiss champion again in 1955 and was bitterly disappointed when the Swiss chose to boycott the 1956 Olympics after the Russian intervention in Hungary . |
| 8 | Training was most effective where the farmer was able and willing to identify his own training needs . |
| 9 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 10 | The house was spotlessly clean though the furniture was sparse and the floor covered with sand . |
| 11 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 12 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 13 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 14 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 15 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 16 | But it was surely unlikely that he had talked over the idea with someone who was little better than a stranger . |
| 17 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 18 | Lili 's father was tremendously rich until the government sequestered all his property . |
| 19 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 20 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , she was somewhat freer than the Newham development officer to concentrate on putting in support worker help rather than liaising with other services . |
| 22 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 23 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 24 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 25 | The stench of decomposing material was so great when the pie was cut that people were endangered as they fell on top of each other in their haste to get away . |
| 26 | ‘ I took a kick on the side of the knee and it was so unnecessary because the ball was two or three yards away . |
| 27 | I was so lucky because the bike cleared hedges and fencing . ’ |
| 28 | Karadjordje himself was less sanguine than the Serbian knezovi in their expectations that the Porte would , or even could , carry out the promised reforms . |
| 29 | Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity . |
| 30 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |