Example sentences of "was [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 , . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The pretreatment serum HBV-DNA level was lower and the aspartate aminotransferase level higher in the response group . |
| 8 | And Germany 's self-absorption with unity meant that its response to the Gulf challenge was feebler than the Germanophiles would have wished . |
| 9 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 11 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 12 | Also the duration of HBsAg positivity was shorter and the presence of cirrhosis was more prominent in responders . |
| 13 | This phenomenon was observed in only 4 of 23 spinal patients ( p<0.001 compared with normal ) but the duration was shorter and the amplitude was smaller ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 14 | The great advantage — let us talk about the advantages — to many single people was that the community charge was fairer than the rating system . |
| 15 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 16 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 17 | In Cheapside , where the thoroughfare was broader and the houses did not press so close , they relaxed . |
| 18 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 19 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 20 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 21 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 22 | As they began to move towards it they noticed that the door was bigger than the others and could quite easily accommodate two men abreast . |
| 23 | Its page size was bigger than The Times and its front-page message summoned up , with a tinge of pomposity , a degree of wishful thinking , the hope of the month , and indeed the year : ‘ We Shall Fight We Will Win Paris London Rome Berlin . ’ |
| 24 | The Kha-Khan 's chamber was bigger than the anteroom . |
| 25 | Erm , er er the man was bigger than the boy |
| 26 | A man was bigger than the boy , good . |
| 27 | Was bigger than the downstairs . |
| 28 | At last the bastion had met his match , a fly-boy from Fife , who was out to prove he was bigger than the club itself . |
| 29 | Yeah but it was bigger than the plate . |
| 30 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |