Example sentences of "[subord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparisons in blood are an inadequate measure of courage or military achievement , but these raiders ' losses were a far greater proportion of their force — 369 from 611 army and naval personnel — than were lost in the World War I blocking of Zeebrugge when 195 men were killed from a force of 1,784 . |
| 2 | Aethelhere , king of the eastern Angles , and the majority of Penda 's duces perished in the ensuing battle in which , according to Bede , more died in the flood-waters of the river than were slain by the sword ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 3 | This has been a very fine England side over the years , but I think there will be many more Irish players in the party than were mooted at the beginning of the season . ’ |
| 4 | Our new computer system is intended to monitor course registrations , but more students have registered than were represented on the computer printout . |
| 5 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 6 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 7 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 8 | The risk factors therefore probably accounted for a greater proportion of the grade differences in sickness absence than was observed in the multivariate analysis . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 . |
| 10 | We could not have sustained many Nuremburgs when we lost more aircrew in one night than was lost in the entire Battle of Britain ( in several months ) . |
| 11 | The conversation turned to the Biafran War and a controversy arose about the Biafrans ' prospects of success , which would no doubt have been more favourably presented by Aitken than was believed by the General . |
| 12 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 13 | Finally , the kestrel has large excesses of isolated teeth for both incisors and molars , and all three samples show a similar pattern , although with a greater range of variation than was seen in the tawny owl : incisor excess range of 110–172 per cent . |
| 14 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 15 | One was the extension of school-based curriculum leadership roles across a much wider range of curriculum areas than was covered in the mid-1980s ( see Chapter 3 ) : in this sense , nearly every teacher is a curriculum leader ( or even a coordinator ) now . |
| 16 | Seismic data which show the deep structure of rift systems have revealed a much more complex pattern of faulting than was suspected in the classic rift model , with the presence of listric as well as normal faults . |
| 17 | When a Russian loan was over-subscribed in Paris in the following December , a bigger change was implied than was recognized at the time . |
| 18 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 19 | The secret deliberations of the Eisenhower administration show that allied ( and especially British ) advice and thinking received more attention than was realized at the time . |
| 20 | Will it be seen , with hindsight , that the introduction of the computer into the humanities disciplines has made no more substantial change in the eventual output of research than was made by the introduction of the electric typewriter ? |
| 21 | The declining number of school leavers , many of whom enter nursing , will result in an even greater shortage of students of nursing than was experienced in the late 1960s . |
| 22 | The fact that Muir Construction was the contractor for both the external shell of the building and the interior fitting out of the store proved advantageous and the company was able to start the internal fitting out work early , even though the shell was finished later than was anticipated in the original programme . |
| 23 | The Russian government called for a speedier reduction of multiple-warhead ( MIRV ) missiles than was envisaged in the START treaty , possible even their elimination by the year 2000 , while the US side preferred a longer time-scale to enable it to make a more detailed assessment of its perceived nuclear defence needs . |
| 24 | He appeared to conceive the Commonwealth as a tighter union than was envisaged by the Slav republics , and the purpose of the Alma Ata meeting as negotiating the new structure rather than formally including new members , as its original founders had appeared to suggest . |
| 25 | The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution . |
| 26 | A second convention met in July 1833 and in an effort to improve the bill had a delegation denounce apprenticeship to Stanley 's face and managed to unite behind a Buxton amendment that apprenticeship should be for no longer than was required for the welfare of the slave . |
| 27 | Identification of the main subject areas in a more explicit manner than was required in the planning stage . |
| 28 | However if the actual price level turned out to be higher in t than was expected at the end of t - 1 , firms would be more willing to produce extra output and y t , would exceed y * ; . |
| 29 | Charitable donations , however , did nothing to enhance a political interest , even if a lack of charity could seriously harm it , for a substantial contribution from a major political figure was no more than was expected by the gentlemen of a county or the magistrates of a burgh . |
| 30 | The current-account imbalances in the three largest economies , West Germany , Japan and the USA , shrank more than was expected in the second half of 1989 . |