Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The king having said this , ill present , both great and small , gave their assent , and renouncing the more imperfect institution resolved to conform to that which they found to be better . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 3 | Below the sandstones there is a thick sequence of tuffs and lavas , already referred to and believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 4 | The range in the latter direction seemed to be closer , and some of the highest peaks were capped with what looked like snow . |
| 5 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 6 | One shoe seemed to be wetter than the other and the strap was working loose , so , leaning against the ledge of the shop window , she took it off to have a look at it . |
| 7 | The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . |
| 8 | In patients with familial adenomatous polyposis , the baseline CCPR seemed to be higher than the overall control value ( 8.75 v 4.74 cells/ crypt/hour ) but the difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 9 | However , if more than that was needed and the family began to have more serious problems , then on the whole it seemed to be better to bring in an outside agency unconnected to the placement process . |
| 10 | And then the when they were built Sometimes some folk used to build them into what they called a hay soo It was a square kind of a thing but er and I do n't know why they put it into a hays hay soo as we say , but it seemed to er it seemed to be better to keep the h the wet out I suppose . |
| 11 | Or the management seemed to be better , okay ? |
| 12 | ‘ I have known such a life … the days seemed to be longer , the air sweeter than it can ever be in England … |
| 13 | But this seemed to be further than Luke was prepared to go . |
| 14 | No they seemed to be fairer than some of the lairds was . |
| 15 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 16 | When Sycorax seemed to be quieter , her lips still and her breathing more regular , Ariel drew to the side of the room and stretched out her sore leg and leaned against the wall and closed her eyes . |
| 17 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 18 | From where they stood , everything seemed to be smaller . |
| 19 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 20 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 21 | " Certain persons , " he wrote , " are by common consent agreed to be wiser than others , and their opinion is , by consent , to rank for much more than its numerical value . " |
| 22 | I think its got to be better if I hold it different . |
| 23 | What they pleaded for was further experimentation and what they hoped was that the new techniques and acting styles could be extended to other types of films . |
| 24 | He was one of those whose wisdom ( to recall the terms of Wyatt 's sonnet ) insisted on his maintaining an unchanged obedience to an authority he ultimately felt to be higher than the King 's . |
| 25 | Samples also came from 27 butchers and 27 delis in Leeds , Reading and South London — and they proved to be worse . |
| 26 | He seemed to be poring over some papers and the room itself appeared to be tidier than when he had visited it earlier . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , the adverse effects appeared to be worse for younger drivers and worse for men than women . |
| 28 | Ministers said they were encouraged by reports from candidates that the party 's vote was holding up and appeared to be firmer than Labour 's . |
| 29 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 30 | The proportion of pupils who treated decimals as whole numbers appeared to be greater when the numbers were in context than when pure numbers were used . |