Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj -er] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , John Merrill has qualified this assessment by pointing out that Rhee himself encouraged many independents to stand because of the weakness of his own political organisation ; while a reverse for Rhee , his position after the election was rather stronger than it appeared to be . |
| 2 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 3 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 4 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 5 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 6 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 7 | Between 1984/85 and 1988/89 the tax ratio fell very slightly , but in April 1989 it was still higher than it had been when the Conservatives took office . |
| 8 | 188 ) was largely ineffective , and at the beginning of the 1980s , the length of the network was slightly greater than it had been in 1964 , despite proposals in the interim ( usually tied to credit agreements with the World Bank ) to consider for closure several thousand kilometres of route . |
| 9 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 10 | It was also larger than it had looked from outside . |
| 11 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 12 | The sky was now brighter than it had been earlier in the evening . |
| 13 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 14 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 15 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |