Example sentences of "were [adj -er] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ratios of liver to plasma free leucine enrichment at the end of the measurement period were lower than the value of 95% seen in muscle with the same protocol , which compares with 50% to 80% in muscle when [ C ] leucine is infused as a tracer dose . |
| 2 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 3 | In all cases , the reported values of imports into Yugoslavia were lower than the export values reported by the partner countries , despite the fact that the Yugoslav values were c.i.f. and the partner country values were f.o.b . |
| 4 | But in 24 of 40 WFS countries , among women who worked , levels of infant mortality were lower when the mother was employed away from home in anon-farm occupation ( some education and skills ) than when she had not worked at all since marriage . |
| 5 | He opened up his shirt , and showed us his breasts and pointed out that they were bigger than the woman 's . |
| 6 | He watched open-mouthed when his attacker 's black hair shed its pins as she shook with rage , dumbfounded by the eyes which were hotter than the fire by which he sat . |
| 7 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 8 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |
| 9 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 10 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 11 | Both of these groups had non-completion rates which were higher than the average for all students . |
| 12 | ( 1982 ) found that the proportions of bedwetting children were higher when the child showed other behavioural disturbance . |
| 13 | In the mid fifteenth century Sir John Fortescue claimed that the English were richer than the French , that they normally drank ale instead of water and ate all kinds of flesh and fish in abundance ( 10 , pp.86–7 ) . |
| 14 | Only when the cameras were rolling was it heart-sinkingly apparent that the physics of inertia , represented by nearly a ton of resting sand , were greater than the physics of motion represented by the four skidding wheels of a Land Rover . |
| 15 | The newer streets were wider than the average of manufacturing towns . |
| 16 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
| 17 | As noted above , Wheeler dated the rampart at Verulamium to Hadrian by deciding that historical grounds were sounder than the evidence of the pottery , which included Antonine pieces . |