Example sentences of "more [adj] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 2 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 4 | Though warfare came increasingly to be in competition with marriage marketing as the chief business of kings , it lost none of its importance in the eyes of contemporaries : the more indecisive it became , the more attached they were to it . |
| 5 | Even so , the more successful they were in boosting speed and trimming fuel needs , the worse ocean freighters ' economics became . |
| 6 | The fuller the gym was , the more isolated you were with your visitors , because you were in a crowd . |