Example sentences of "were more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the other girls were more serious about it , beauty contests were their whole lives . |
| 2 | Aye , people were more serious in them days than they are now are n't they ? |
| 3 | So community autonomy was a contingent achievement of those who were more distant from central power , and who had a potential common loyalty against outsiders , even if it was not active all of the time . |
| 4 | Finding the institutional means to strike at the slave trade and slavery internationally posed even greater difficulties for those abolitionists of Joseph Sturge 's generation who were more distant from the centres of political power in Britain . |
| 5 | The compact , organized attack of the Moors shook the Christians ; they were more used to single combats where the actions of one man could turn the day . |
| 6 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 7 | If we found that responses in later surveys were more favourable towards breaking the law among respondents of all ages , this would be interpreted as a pure period effect . |
| 8 | That trend matches the trend in television projections of party unity , which were more favourable to Labour at the start and end of the campaign , but more favourable to the Conservatives in the middle , especially so in the third week . |
| 9 | Violence was more widespread than in Smolensk and other gubernii near the fronts , despite the fact that the latter were more subject to disturbances caused by soldiers , according to militia reports . |
| 10 | The police and the security services grew stronger ; the press and media generally were more subject to control . |
| 11 | Conversely , persons occupying peripheral positions in such a group were more exposed to external standardizing pressures ( L. Milroy 1980 ; Milroy and Milroy 1985b ) . |
| 12 | Goldberg and Lewis sampled very young babies between 6 and 13 months and they observed that mothers of female babies were more protective of them , keeping them close to their side , cuddling them a lot and that the babies liked to play quietly with soft toys and absorbing tasks . |
| 13 | They looked at both the Redcliffe-Maud and Wheatley approaches and concluded that the principles of the latter ‘ were more appropriate to the circumstances of Northern Ireland ’ ( Macrory 1970:24 ) . |
| 14 | However , by then , Beigbeder was known to be against Spanish entry into the war and Serrano 's Axis sympathies were more appropriate to dealing with Hitler and more in tune with Franco 's own preferences than the anglophile leanings Beigbeder had developed . |
| 15 | They rejected the new ideas offered to or forced upon them , convinced that their ancient ways were more appropriate to the forest in which they lived . |
| 16 | Women with paper qualifications were more successful at re-entering their original occupation than employees of banks and public administration whose skills we surmise were more specific to the employer . |
| 17 | Gordon Heald of Gallup , which is owned by its four working directors , said polls published outside election campaigns were more useful for name recognition . |
| 18 | Those who opposed hunting on moral grounds were more effective in reducing the scale upon which exotic birds were slaughtered for their feathers . |
| 19 | The Blue Mosque and the Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent were more impressive from outside ; but inside them I was conscious of confinement . |
| 20 | At the shortest duration ( 20 msecs ) subjects were unable to identify any words , but lexical decisions were more accurate in the left than the right visual field . |
| 21 | In Italy its champions were more nervous of its social-revolutionary implications than of papal thunderbolts , but nevertheless confident enough . |
| 22 | These had now moved away from the bright primaries of the early Sixties and included many rustic shades such as mushroom brown , sage green and sludgy blue ; colours , which were more reminiscent of the old-fashioned vegetable dyes and perfectly complemented the style of the dresses . |
| 23 | Early reviewers were more upset by the social conscience which poems like this displayed than by the outlandish verses , and did not understand why a poet should be concerned with the study of ‘ low and rustic life ’ . |
| 24 | Their exaggeration of the small tasks betrayed that they were more involved with Moran than in what they were doing . |
| 25 | The status which nuclear power achieved because of its link with the defence of the realm was also retained even when its day-to-day operations were more involved with producing peaceful electricity . |
| 26 | The more senior staff also say they feel more competent to conduct the review , have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful , report that outsiders were more involved in their schools ' review and consider their reports to be more judgmental . |
| 27 | Later , larger buildings were more complex in plan and construction with a multiplicity of domes but , often , basically on cross-in-square foundation . |
| 28 | These changes were more pronounced in men . |
| 29 | Jejunal mucosal changes were more pronounced in the patients who had received 500 mg/day gliadin . |
| 30 | He had not been active in the partnership for some years now , so that the younger inhabitants were more familiar with Doctor Lovell , who had married a Thrush Green girl , and was accepted as a comparatively worthy successor to Doctor Bailey . |