Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The index of the city 's wealth is its contribution of £1,704 to the subsidy , which , although far ahead of that of any other provincial town , was only slightly more than a tenth of London 's £16675 . |
| 2 | The temptation to evade the truth was suddenly almost more than Harry could bear , so achingly did he want to go home . |
| 3 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 4 | It only remains to emphasise that the new Parliamentary Labour Party was socially far more representative of the country as a whole than the party of 1935 onwards , and that its leadership , which had had the experience of participation in government during the war , was able to assume the reins of office without any of the difficulties that Ramsay MacDonald encountered in forming his minority governments in 1924 and 1929 . |
| 5 | One of these , Stone , was probably never more than the farm it is today — it is mentioned as such in 1086 . |
| 6 | Prime Mist Prime Minister Major spoke last year at a nurses awards dinner organised by Bupa he said there was now much more scope for private health firms . |
| 7 | Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again . |
| 8 | I had to buy The People and The News of the World which was then even more of a scandal sheet than it is today . |
| 9 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
| 10 | In spite of the uncertainty expressed in the HMI survey quoted above , the impression from the questionnaires was that substantially more activity took place on primary than secondary courses ( though we should point out that HMI considered in their survey that secondary teachers had better ‘ assimilated the importance of language in children 's learning ’ in their training than primary teachers — DES , 1987 : 119 ) . |
| 11 | And consider , as Mrs Browning had never done , the close proximity in which servants lived in these rented apartments — it was very often more than flesh could stand . |