Example sentences of "this [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made worse by a slight over-count of whites — people with two homes , for instance , tended to be double-counted . |
| 2 | This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital . |
| 3 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 4 | This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive , which could favour the wealthiest clients . |
| 5 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 6 | But this was becoming harder to justify . |