Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this seemed to be more work than charring — for less pay . |
| 2 | I needed to go to the toilet , and with every step I took there seemed to be more convulsions from my guts . |
| 3 | There seemed to be more quarrels indoors when the children were crowded together . |
| 4 | ‘ There seemed to be more people than ever there . |
| 5 | I mean , we were young ; there happened to be more girls in the neighbourhood than boys , and we experimented — there was nothing vicious about it . |
| 6 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 7 | I think photographers had to be more craftsmen then than they do now . |
| 8 | Convergers tended to be more conformist , more authoritarian in their views , have a high IQ , do badly on open-ended tests ( i.e. ones which demanded a certain amount of free expression and imagination ) and specialize in the physical sciences . |