Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] [be] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only exception to this pattern is the iron knife , an everyday tool which is frequently found in graves , and which may have been more personalised than the more specialised tools and therefore buried with the owner . |
| 2 | Many of the linguistic elements are borrowed from Tolkien and — which must have been more exasperating for their originator — changed and got ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 3 | He registered that George Wood 's information had been correct , paid his bill and — to the relief of the landlord — went on his way over the pass and not back to Keswick , which would have been more likely for a government man . |
| 4 | He argues further that the parish vestry and its officers , the churchwardens , overseers and constables , could cut across divides of wealth and were a means by which the gentry and rural middle class secured positions which would have been more precarious without the respect they received by fulfilling certain customary expectations of relief . |
| 5 | And in a way I lost my direction too when all my lovely ideas about what I hoped to do were smashed down , leaving only a shell : a two-dimensional character instead of a many-faceted character , which would have been more interesting to watch and more interesting to do . |
| 6 | A black British guy putting his views on US TV what could have been more beautiful ? |