Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Series were deemed to be longer plays , broken down into episodes for convenience of presentation . |
| 2 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Black was predominant because black was what people preferred , but the so-called ancient cattle of Wales included every conceivable colour : very bright orange-red , yellow dun ( dominant to black ) in Montgomery , blue around Llanfair Caereiniou ( blues were said to be better milkers than black , possibly because of some Shorthorn blood in the past ) , a recessive mousy colour popular in the Lleyn peninsula , white with coloured points , solid colours and pies and brindles , belts and linebacks . |
| 4 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 5 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 6 | Adduct levels were found to be higher in smokers than non-smokers and adduct levels were significantly higher after truncal vagotomy and drainage than after highly selective vagotomy . |
| 7 | Information leakages were found to be smaller in chemicals than in other sectors , and for new process development decisions in virtually all of the industries in the sample ( see Mansfield et al. , |
| 8 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 9 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 10 | Antral crypts were estimated to be longer than gastric body crypts . |
| 11 | At least 33 people were killed in the Bahamas , Florida ( where the death toll was greatest ) and Louisiana , although the final figure was expected to be higher . |
| 12 | Police reported no new congestion on roads , although traffic was expected to be heavier because of the rain . |
| 13 | Mm , mm , we might even manage , I mean , we , we might talk later on about this , but , perhaps you know have two or three people working on a campaign if , if , if , if it was felt to be better that way , mm , mm . |
| 14 | This can hardly be to deny the emperor 's gift but is certainly the action of a realist , to whom arguments from later , and perhaps what was seen to be better , evidence , are important . |
| 15 | It never gave large quantities of milk , but the milk was said to be richer than that of the well-known Suffolk Dun ( see Red Poll ) . |
| 16 | His economic plan was made to be tougher on the deficit in the House of Representatives , and may be made tougher still in the Senate . |
| 17 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 18 | I thought it was going to be worse than it was . |
| 19 | It was going to be worse even than she had feared . |
| 20 | Could you just repeat the figures for capital expenditure I think you said that this year was going to be higher than last year and explain explain where the money gon na be invested |
| 21 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 22 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 23 | A Hungarian with relatives employed at a Timisoara hospital told Budapest radio that at least 250 bodies had been admitted to one hospital and that the death figure was bound to be higher . |
| 24 | But neither the second 1871 recommendation regarding widows , nor the order respecting deserted wives were generally implemented , as outdoor relief was found to be cheaper than taking children into the workhouse . |
| 25 | The concentration of lithocholic acid was found to be higher in patients with polyps than controls as was the concentration of total secondary bile acids ( Table II ) . |
| 26 | Our laboratory has recently shown significant disparity between ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease in terms of IgG subclass production in the mucosal lesion ; the proportion of IgG1 immunocytes was found to be higher in ulcerative colitis than in Crohn 's colitis , while the reverse was true for the IgG2 cell fraction . |
| 27 | The prevalence of gastric metaplasia , however , was found to be higher in patients with current or past evidence of duodenal ulcer disease in comparison with subjects with functional dyspepsia ( p=0.01 ) . |
| 28 | The variance within subjects and within biopsy samples was found to be higher for the BrdU method than the PCNA method , but the variance within crypts was equal ( Table II ) . |
| 29 | In plots in the Queensland rain forest , seedling recruitment of subcanopy trees and understorey species was found to be lower for common than for rare species : for canopy species there was no such correlation . |
| 30 | The world was found to be vaster , more varied , and full of previously undreamt-of possibilities . |