Example sentences of "was [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 9 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 10 | Also the duration of HBsAg positivity was shorter and the presence of cirrhosis was more prominent in responders . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The great advantage — let us talk about the advantages — to many single people was that the community charge was fairer than the rating system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Kha-Khan 's chamber was bigger than the anteroom . |
| 18 | Erm , er er the man was bigger than the boy |
| 19 | A man was bigger than the boy , good . |
| 20 | Was bigger than the downstairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yeah but it was bigger than the plate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 25 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 26 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 27 | In terms of Figure 17–2 , it is highly questionable whether the cost saving rectangle B was larger than the dead-weight burden triangle A. |
| 28 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 29 | The value of coconut products consumed within the island was larger than the value of exports , but substantial amounts of coconut oil and copra were sent overseas . |
| 30 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |