Example sentences of "[adj] were more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some clubs pursued their aim by focusing on recreation , physical exercise , and outdoor games ; some were more concerned with general academic education ; others with religious instruction ; while many tried to offer varied programmes . |
| 2 | No no I think there were all sorts , all ages , I I think just maybe some were more dedicated to the job and th certainly after a couple of weeks it was n't family if you like you know , family in inverted commas , there . |
| 3 | The Blue Mosque and the Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent were more impressive from outside ; but inside them I was conscious of confinement . |
| 4 | those with difficulty looking after themselves , the confused , the incontinent , the blind , the deaf , and the bad tempered were more likely to be in such homes than others . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , good research departments whose staff had conceptual ability as well as research skills would be needed more than ever , and these were more likely to be found in the large , broad-based search firms . |
| 6 | Three measures per patient yearly were more frequent in prompted patients : tests for albuminuria ( median 3.0 v 2.3 ; p=0.03 ) , plasma glucose estimations ( 3.1 v 2.5 ; p=0.003 ) , and glycated haemoglobin estimations ( 2.4 v 0.9 ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 7 | Housing issues in the 1970s were more concerned with existing stock than with new developments . |
| 8 | Violence was more widespread than in Smolensk and other gubernii near the fronts , despite the fact that the latter were more subject to disturbances caused by soldiers , according to militia reports . |
| 9 | An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance . |
| 11 | Where the former used the full vocabulary of informality , and seemed unprepared or unable to accommodate the possibility that alternative viewpoints might exist , the latter were more aware of the limitations of progressivism , both as an idea and as a basis for practice . |
| 12 | Great numbers of labouring poor were more characteristic of regions where the soil was chalk-based . |
| 13 | The Chinese were more interested in the practical measurement of time than were the inhabitants of India . |
| 14 | Most ministers at first were more interested in spending money than in getting to grips with the nation 's economic problems . |
| 15 | Of an arbitrary 13 goods , five were more expensive in the independents , seven more expensive in Sainsbury 's , and one ( tinned tomatoes ) cost the same . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , women still childless at age 32 were more likely to be from a professional background with few brothers or sisters , and with mothers who themselves married late , and to have more than average personal ambition and parental interest . |
| 17 | It was not necessarily that the rich were more adroit at tax avoidance . |
| 18 | The English feared for their lives to be shut out of a keep ; but the Welsh were more wary of being shut in . |
| 19 | Most were more concerned with the courts being ‘ too lenient ’ . |
| 20 | Such attempts to find solutions in the discourse of everyday were more typical of lawyer C. |