Example sentences of "was more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 2 | ‘ But after watching the video , I was more pleased with my movement away from the terrific power of his left hook and uppercut . ’ |
| 3 | No one was more pleased about Dara 's demise than Roshanara Begum . |
| 4 | Edward Carrington had a heavy certainty that the lightness was more genuine on her part than on his . |
| 5 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 6 | And then — and this was more sinister by far — or is the Castle affecting her ? |
| 7 | Pell & D'Alonzo reported that hypertension was more frequent in diabetics at 37 per cent prevalence compared to matched non-diabetics at 24 per cent , employed at the Dupont Electric Company ( Pell & D'Alonzo , 1967 ) . |
| 8 | The species was more frequent in the 19th century , when extreme dates were 22 March and 11 November , and parties of up to 20 or more were seen . |
| 9 | Snyder ( 1977 ) found that an indiscriminate use of attention was more frequent in clinic-referred families than in normal families . |
| 10 | At stage IV , diarrhoea was more frequent in infected compared with non-infected patients ( p=0.006 ) ; however , an infective agent was also found in 39 of 82 patients at stage IV without diarrhoea . |
| 11 | Chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in those with mixed infections ( 20/26 ( 77% ) ) compared with those with Cryptosporidium alone ( p<0.025 ) ; 14 had diarrhoea for 21 days or more . |
| 12 | In comparison four of seven with the remaining cases , chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in those who had travelled abroad ( χ 2 test , p<0.005 ) , and just significantly increased in patients from itinerant families ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 13 | Twenty nine per cent of cases had a mixed infection , and chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in these patients . |
| 14 | It began around 3BC when man was more nomadic in nature and needed plants that were portable . |
| 15 | Their comeback gig was more memorable for the , erm , flag-waving support act , and now the accompanying video is a yawnathon that misses all the fun … |
| 16 | Similarly , the thesis of Western historians that Protestant Christianity was more conducive to the expansion of science than Catholicism has often carried a hidden agenda . |
| 17 | Alternatively , there continued to be ‘ grassroots ’ feelings that in spite of the hazards of peer review through external validation , the process was more palatable in some subject areas than the hazards within institutions . |
| 18 | But the effect of all this on Emma was more worrying to Peggy than anything else that had transpired . |
| 19 | Bush was more cautious about such a possibility , but accepted her view that the UK must not become the only European NATO member to provide bases for air-launched nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | Here Dowd was more cautious in his account . |
| 21 | The least distant neighbour version ( costig ) was more applicable to ordering the cosmid library under the scheme of sampling without replacement and has a menu-driven interface allowing , among other options , the output of any single contig specified by a probe belonging to it . |
| 22 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |
| 23 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 24 | In what ways do you think that daily life was more pleasant in the time before this migration to the towns than it was afterwards ? |
| 25 | Musgrave found himself compelled to remark to a Frenchman he met that ‘ There was more blue in his country than in any region of the world with which I was acquainted . ’ |
| 26 | Customs and Excise Commissioners was more akin to the subpoena directed to a witness than the discovery required of an ordinary defendant . |
| 27 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 28 | Graham said : ‘ I was more disappointed with the performance than the result . |
| 29 | But Wilson , who was more visible during the election than many ministers , would be well advised not to pen an account of the real campaign — his version of the Alliance 's 1987 effort won him few friends . |
| 30 | On 22nd July , Major Wood came to the Wallowa to investigate the killing , and reported Joseph as saying that ‘ the valley was more sacred to him than ever before , and he would and did claim it now as recompense for the life taken . ’ |