Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj -er] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 2 | Ken was busier now than he had ever been before . |
| 3 | The wind was worse now and Hafpor 's anenometer was showing gusts to 60 kph . |
| 4 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 5 | It should be said that his range of original and indeed trail-blazing contributions to modern theology was wider even than this . |
| 6 | The sound was louder now and seemed to fill the box . |
| 7 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 8 | I thought my father was older now and I was older . |
| 9 | The traffic was heavier now but the Germans were disciplined to respect a fast-moving car . |
| 10 | The feeling was stronger still when Louisa opened the front door ; the smell of steam , of soapsuds and wet sheets was unmistakable . |
| 11 | His Western network for other news was wider even than that , not to mention the other more extravagant system he had discussed with no one except , of course , Loppe . |
| 12 | Our bewilderment was greater still when our carefully selected clothing was found to be far in excess of the requirement of the moment . |
| 13 | Bernice noted that the air was clearer here and the mist thinner . |
| 14 | The land was flatter here and there were fewer boulders strewn around . |
| 15 | I t was colder inside than in the open air . |
| 16 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Remorse , dissatisfaction and hope filled his mind as the heat of a glorious midsummer approached , and his yearning for a means to channel his abundant intellectual and emotional energy was greater now than it had ever been . |
| 18 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 19 | The swing of 24.7 per cent to the Liberal Democrats was larger even than that at Eastbourne in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , or than the swing to Labour at Mid-Staffordshire in March of that year [ see pp. 37328-29 ] . |