Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 2 | Looking back I wish I 'd been more courageous . |
| 3 | From then on idle chit-chat returned and I made no attempt to direct things back to what I believed were more important matters . |
| 4 | Generally , this method , however , I believe is more useful for studying the human condition than an experimental approach which looks at behaviour as the result of manipulation of variables . |
| 5 | Thus , although I use the present tense , the physical organization of communities and the economic organization that I discuss are more relevant to the pre-1970 period . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I suppose that 's possible … but what I think is more possible … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What I think is more possible is that I 'm right . ’ |
| 8 | What I think is more debatable is how successfully the method can in practice avoid the following criticisms . |
| 9 | What I think is more important than the reactions of others . |
| 10 | What a racket did I keep and to say truth I would I had been more chary than I was … for a faithless wretch I met with : well , he has a deal to answer for . |
| 11 | I wished I had been more patient and stayed at the witchdoctor 's . |
| 12 | Soane concludes , ‘ I have been more anxious to produce utility in the plans than to display expensive architecture in the elevations ; the leading objects were to unite convenience and comfort in the interior distributions , and simplicity and uniformity in the exterior. , |
| 13 | I have been more concerned with what would happen to my business if Andrew switched his manufacturing orders to someone else . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What do you think is more important : to protect the historical and nature sites , paying more for the roads , or let the roads go through the areas as originally planned ? ’ |
| 15 | The non-response is likely to be non-random so that bias is introduced ; a further complication is that the desired respondent may pass the form to someone he or she thinks is more interested . |
| 16 | On the whole she has been more attentive to the requirements of the arts of self-presentation and the requirements of the mass media and public relations than other leaders like Heath , Callaghan , and Foot . |
| 17 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 18 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 19 | She was as reckless as the DK , but Bernice suspected that until recently she 'd been more cautious . |
| 20 | Instead of putting all her efforts into resisting him , she 'd been more concerned about not admitting her love . |
| 21 | IF YOU THORNPROOF is more barbarous than Barbour , then it 's time to reach for the Barbour Repair Kit . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was important erm because as as as erm , as I 'm I 'm fond of saying that in history perhaps what you believe is more important than what actually happened . |
| 23 | ‘ Why in the world could n't she have been more honest with me ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you had been awake , would you have been more amenable ? |
| 25 | I 'll say that for you , Deirdre , you 've been more encouraging than anyone else . ’ |
| 26 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |
| 27 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 28 | Could we have been more different from one another ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |