Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of care is often repeated : ex-care women in their study were considerably more likely than a comparison group to suffer a breakdown in their own role as parents , resulting in one in five of their children also being admitted into institutional care . |
| 2 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 3 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 4 | Some would argue that these programmes did not reflect contemporary reality because ministers in the Thatcher administration were generally more assertive than their predecessors . |
| 5 | For the Pharisees , religion was rather more flexible , more subject to growth modification and development , less exclusively vested in the Temple and its rites . |
| 6 | In the inter-war period the physical distance of descendents of Italian immigrants in New York and Chicago from the geographical bases of the economic , cultural and political central elites was of no consequence ; in the pluralist explanation of the failure of such groups to integrate into modern American society , their cultural isolation was much more important . |
| 7 | And although the flow of mutual aid was markedly more often from the grandparent so long as the two generations were living separately , there were several cases in which visiting was explicitly intended to enable the grandchild to convey help . |
| 8 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 9 | Industrial investment was even more badly affected : in 1980 prices , UK industrial investment was about £8,200 million in 1979 but by 1987 was only £7,586 million ( British Business , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Third , while of modest significance for US business as a whole , overseas investment was much more important for the giant multinational enterprises . |
| 11 | Of course Lang 's movie was far more interested in psychology than sociology but there were other differences too : Fury was a one-off movie whereas the more pedestrian and less ambitious Black Legion was part of a continuing Hollywood tradition . |
| 12 | While the idea of such interactions could be inferred from earlier experiments , here the result was much more dramatic and clear-cut . |
| 13 | Poor Chamberlain tried to save himself , but his reply was yet more pathetic than his first attempt . |
| 14 | Yet Morse 's mind was never more fertile than when faced with some apparently insuperable obstacle , and even now he found it difficult to abandon his earlier , sweet hypothesis about the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 15 | It was clear that his mind was once more centred on the hunt for Angy 's killer . |
| 16 | At the 1991 Autocar & Motor Awards the optimism was rather more guarded , as Lord King spelled out a message to the motor industry to take pride in engineering . |
| 17 | When she heard this Vasilissa was even more frightened , but she said , " Oh , my sister , let me in I beg you , for I have been sent to fetch a little fire . " |
| 18 | The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area . |
| 19 | I always took the view that the programme was infinitely more important than any one person taking part in it . |
| 20 | His teaching programme was far more ambitious than the Cook 's tour round the library shelves plus a l:and-out , which was probably the best typical kind of library induction up to then provided in further and higher education . |
| 21 | Aycliffe shook his head , and the twinkle was once more visible in his eye . |
| 22 | Defoe was much more impressed with the vitality of Lewes , or even Petworth , ‘ a large and handsome country market town , and very populous , and as it stands upon an ascent and is dry and healthy , it is full of gentlemens families , and good well built houses both in the town and the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 23 | The effect was even more dramatic when she swept into a meeting . |
| 24 | On a SUN 3/160 the effect was even more devastating . |
| 25 | If he had looked rather large and strong from a distance , the effect was even more overpowering close up . |
| 26 | The culturally conservative world of commerce and industry was hardly more attractive , and relatively few noblemen combined the capital , the ability , and the inclination to find satisfaction in serf-based farming . |
| 27 | Prof Parker added that the number of children trying booze was far more worrying . |
| 28 | After the event Melby was far more pessimistic : ‘ the sickening feeling that this was China all over again' and if , as he allowed , that in Indo-China French colonial policy was as intransigent as ever it may well have been reciprocated as High Commissioner Pignon and General Carpentier both admitted to Melby ‘ privately and with great reluctance that hatred of the French outweighed all other considerations in the thinking of all Vietnamese , whatever their political persuasions ’ . |
| 29 | If Oliver 's fear was slightly more explicit than is common , this was merely because killing people was a concept he dwelt upon fairly frequently and with lively interest . |
| 30 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |